Literacy and Discourse Studies

Books, articles and links on literacy studies, discourse analysis, semiotics, and writing as social and cultural practice


Barton, D. (1994). Literacy: an Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Oxford: Blackwell.

Barton, D. and Ivanic, R. (1991). Writing in the Community. London: Sage.

Barton, D., Hamilton, M. and Ivanic, R. eds. (2000). Situated literacies: Reading and writing in context. London and New York: Routledge.

Bazerman, C. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. University of Wisconsin Press.

Bazerman, C. and Russell, D. eds. (2003). Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Electronic book at
http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/.

Bazerman, C. and Prior, P. (2004). What Writing Does and How it Does it. Lawrence Erlbaum. Ch. 4 on Intertextuality, ch. 7 on writing practices, ch. 11 on genres.

Baynham, M. (1995). Literacy Practices: Investigating Literacy in Social Contexts. London: Longman.

Brandt, D. (1990). Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Brandt, D. (1995). 'Sponsors of Literacy'. College Composition and Communication, 49: 165-185.

Brandt, D. (2001). Literacy in American Lives. New York: Cambridge UP.

Brandt, D. and Clinton, K. (2002). 'Limits of the Local: Expanding Perspectives on Literacy as Social Practice'. Journal of Literacy Research, 34,3.

Cameron, D. (1995). Verbal Hygiene. Routledge.

de Castell, S., Luke, A. and Egan, K. (1986). Literacy, Society, and Schooling : A Reader. Cambridge University Press.

de Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press.
Chapter X, 'The Scriptural Economy'.

Chin, E. (1994). 'Redefining "context' in research on writing'. Written Communication, 11: 45-82.

Clark, R. and Ivanic, R. (1997). The Politics of Writing. Routledge.

Cope, B. and Kalantzis, M. (2000). Multiliteracies. Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London and New York: Routledge.

Dias, P, Freedman, A., Medway, P. and Pare, A. eds. (1999). Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts. Mahwah, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dias, P. and Pare, A. eds. (2000). Transitions. Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Duranti, A. (Ed.). (2004). A companion to linguistic anthropology. Malden, MA & Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Duranti, A. & Goodwin, C. Eds.(1992). Rethinking context: Language as an interactive phenomenon. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Farr, M. and Nardini, G. (1996). ‘Essayist Literacy and Sociolinguistic Difference’ in White, E., Lutz, W. and Kamusikiri, S. eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices, New York, MLAA.

Freire, P. and Machado, D. (1987). Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Gee, J.P. (1996). Social Linguistics and Literacies. Falmer Press.

Goncu, A. (ed). (1999). Children's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Goodman, S., Lillis, T, Maybin, J. and Mercer, N. (2003). Language, Literacy and Education: a Reader. Trentham Books.
Includes Street 'Implications of the NLS' paper.

Graff, H. (1979/1991). The Literacy Myth. Transaction Publishers.

Graff, H. (1995). The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Haas, Christina. (1996). Writing technology: Studies in the materiality of writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

Halliday, M.A.K. and Hasan, R. (1989). Language, Context and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective (Second Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. For introduction to systemic functional linguistics see here

Hanks, W.F. (2000). Intertexts: Writings on Language, Utterance, and Context. Rowman and Littlefield.
Chapter 6: 'Text and Textuality'.

*Huot, B., Stroble, B. and Bazerman, C. eds. (2004). Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Mackey, M. (2002). Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text. London: Routledge.

Heath, S.B. (1983). Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hodge, R. and Kress, G. (1979). Language as Ideology. Routledge.

Kalman, J. (1999). Writing on the Plaza: Mediated Literacy Practices among Scribes and Clients in Mexico City. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Kostouli, T. ed. (2005). Writing in context(s). Textual practices and learning processes in sociocultural settings. New York: Springer. See abstracts at http://www.sig-writing.org/

Kress, G. (1997). Before writing: Rethinking the paths to literacy. London and New York: Routledge.

Kress, G. (2003). Literacy and the new media age. London and New York: Routledge.

Lankshear, C. ed. (1997). Changing Literacies. Buckinghamshire: Open University Press.

Latour, B. (1993). We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lemke, J. (1995). Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics. Taylor and Francis.
Contents and bib at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaylemke/bibliogr.htm

Mace, J. (2002). The Give and Take of Writing. UK National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.

Martin-Jones, M. & Jones, K. (Eds.). Multilingual literacies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Includes paper by Charmian Kenner on writing in a multilingual nursery.

Mukherjee, A. and Vasanta, D. eds. (2003). Practice and Research in Literacy. Delhi and London: Sage.

New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures'. Harvard Educational Review. 66: 60-92.

Nystrand, M. (1986). The structure of written communication: Studies in reciprocity between writers and readers. Orlando, FL: Academic Press

Nystrand, M. (1989). 'A social interactive model of writing'. Written Communication, 6: 66-85.

van Peel, W. (1989). ‘The Invisible Textbook: Writing as a Cultural Practice’ in De Castell, S., Luke, A., Luke, C. Language, Authority and Criticism: Readings in the School Text Book. Falmer Press.

Prinsloo, M. and Breier, M. (1996). The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa. John Benjamins/Sached Books.

Prior, P. (1998). Writing/Disciplinarity: A sociohistoric account of literate activity in the academy. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Scollon, R. and Scollon, S. (1981). Narrative, Literacy and Face in Interethnic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Scollon, R. and Scollon, S.W. (1995). Intercultural Communication. Blackwell.

Scollon, R. and Scollon, S.W. (2003). Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World. Routledge.

Scribner, S. and Cole, M. (1981). The Psychology of Literacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Siskin, C. (1998). The Work of Writing. Literature and Social Change in Britain 1700-1830. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.

Street, B. (1984). Literacy in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.

Street, B. ed. (1993). Cross-cultural Approaches to Literacy. Cambridge University Press.

Street, B. (1995). Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education. London and New York, Longman.

Street, B. (2003). 'What's 'New' in New Literacy Studies? Critical Approaches to Literacy in Theory and Pracice'. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 5:2.
See 'Literacy, Education, and Development: Reflections from the World Literacy Series' at
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/Archives/contents.html

Street, B. ed. (2005). Literacies across Educational Contexts; mediating, learning and teaching. Caslon Press.

Trachsel, M. (1992). Institutionalizing Literacy. The Historical Role of College Entrance Examinations in English. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Trimbur, J. (2001). Popular Literacy. Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Vincent, D. (2000). The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Witte, S. P. (1992). Context, text, intertext: Toward a constructivist semiotic of writing. Written Communication, 9, 237-308.

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Social Practices/Situated Learning/Activity Theory

Engestrom, Y, Miettinen, R. and Punamaki, R-L. (1999). Perspectives on Activity Theory. Cambridge University Press.

Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday Anchor.

Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: an Essay on the Organization of Experience. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of Talk. Philadelphia: PENN University Press.

Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge University Press.

Leontiev, A.N. (1978). Activity, Consciousness, and Personality. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Russell, D. R. (1995). 'Activity theory and its implications for writing instruction'. In J. Petraglia (Ed.) Reconceiving writing, rethinking writing instruction. (pp. 51-77). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Scahtzki, T. (2002). The Site of the Social. A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change. Penn State University Press.

Schutz, A. & Luckmann,T. (1973). The structures of the life-world. Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press. Especially on 'typification' and social practices.

Vygostky, L.S. (1978). Mind in Society. Harvard University Press.

Vygostsky, L.S. (1986). Thought and Language. MIT Press.

Wenger, E. (1998, retrieved April 2006). Communities of practice: Learning as a social system.
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml. (First published in Systems Thinker, June 1998).

Semiotics/Social Semiotics


Bal, M. (1994). On Meaning-making. Polebridge Press.

Culler, J. (1981). The Pursuit of Signs. Routledge.

Hodge, R. and Kress, G. (1988). Social Semiotics. Polity Press.

Thibault, P. (1991). Social Semiotics as Praxis: Text, Social Meaning Making and Nabakov's Ada. University of Minnesota Press.

Histories of Writing

Baron, N. (2000). Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. Routledge.

Writing and Science

Bazerman, C. (1988) see above.

Fahnestock, J. (1986). 'Accommodating science: The rhetorical life of scientific facts'. Written Communication, 3: 275-296

Halliday, M.A.K. and Martin, J. R. (1993). Writing Science - Literacy and Discursive Power. London: Falmer Press.

*Knorr-Cetina, K. (1981). The Manufacture of Knowledge. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

*Halloran, S. (1984). 'The birth of molecular biology: an essay in the rhetorical criticism of scientific discourse'. Rhetoric Review, 3: 70-83.

Latour, B. and Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Martin, J. (1985). Factual Writing: Exploring and Challenging Social Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Myers, G. (1990). Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.

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Online

BAAL http://www.baal.org.uk/
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/