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Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies: Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
Tony Capstick
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Description for Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies: Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
Hardcover. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKP; CFDM; JFFN; JFFP; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals’ access to the dominant literacies of migration are contrasted with the vernacular practices which migrants take up at home as part of their digital literacies. The study explores the blurring of boundaries between home and school as well as the blurring of boundaries between language varieties. Tracing access to literacy in this way also shines a light on ... Read more
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals’ access to the dominant literacies of migration are contrasted with the vernacular practices which migrants take up at home as part of their digital literacies. The study explores the blurring of boundaries between home and school as well as the blurring of boundaries between language varieties. Tracing access to literacy in this way also shines a light on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137569776
SKU
V9781137569776
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Tony Capstick
Tony Capstick is Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK where he teaches on the MA and BA programmes including the module Literacy: Social, Educational and Cognitive Perspectives. Prior to this he was the BA Linguistics and Language Programme Director at Birkbeck, University of London. As a teacher educator, Tony has worked in Pakistan, Indonesia ... Read more
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