ANT206H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Code-Switching, Social Capital, Lingala
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Basic: a cognitive process that enables reading, writing, speaking and listening. Most social interactions in contemporary society are textually mediated. Print literacy, information technology literacy, visual literacy, etc. Reading and writing is enacted and interpreted in socially specific ways. Literacy events (le): occasions in which written language is integral to the nature of participants" interactions and their interpretive processes and strategies. The focus here is on episodes in specific social contexts. Literacy practices (lp): unlike le, lp are not specific, observable occurrences but general norms regarding how written texts tend to be produced, interpreted and discussed. Nepali bride writing a letter to her father. Literacy in technical terms, independent of social context. The advent of literacy will cause the same social and psychological effects, no matter which society is being studied. Without writing, human consciousness cannot achieve its fuller potentials. Literacy skills are always acquired in particular social contexts and are never neutral.
