Literacies, identities, and discourses

James Paul Gee

doi:10.4324/9781410612298-13

Literacies, identities, and discourses

James Paul Gee

Arizona State University

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One of the central themes of the so-called New Literacy Studies (see Barton, 1994; Gee, 1996, 2000; and Street, 1995, for programmatic statements) is this: If you want to ask questions about literacy, don’t look at reading and writing in themselves, but as they are embedded within specific social practices. In a narrow sense, reading and writing are technologies, and like all technologies they have no effects in and of themselves, but only specific (and different) effects as they mediate different activities within different social practices.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages
Subtitle of host publication	Meaning With Power
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	159-175
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781135643188
ISBN (Print)	0805839836, 9780805839838
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410612298-13
State	Published - Jan 1 2005

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