Literacy – the power code

Ingrid Piller

Literacy – the power code

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Abstract

“Literacy” is one of those words that everyone uses as a technical term but that is actually really hard to pin down. When I asked the new students in my “Literacies” unit last week what they thought “literacy” meant, they came up with quite a variety of definitions.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 7 Aug 2017

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Literacy – the power code

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