Key+Terms+and+Definitions

WORD (PAGE #) DEFINITION


 * Literacy Pedagogy (60) - teaching and learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national language
 * The "What" (73) - what the students need to learn
 * The "How" (73) - the range of appropriate learning relationships
 * Multiliteracy (60) - shifts in the usage of language (technology, communications, etc.)
 * Linguistic (60) - relating to a language or linguistics
 * Monolingual (61) - knowing only one language
 * Multilingual (61) - expressed and knowing more than one language
 * PostFordism (66) - the changing nature of work; replaces the old hierarchical command structures from Ford's development of mass production
 * Fast Capitalism (66) - another word for the changing nature of work
 * Orders of Discourse (71) - the relationship of discourses in a particular social space
 * Symbolic Capital (71) - symbolic meanings that have currency in access to employment, political power, and cultural recognition
 * Subjectivities (72) - interests, intentions, commitments, and purposes
 * Semiotic (74) - the "grammars" of languages, film, photography, or gesture
 * Discourse (75) - a configuration of knowledge and its habitual forms of expression, which represent a particular set of interests; can include style, genre, dialect, voice, etc.
 * Style (75) - the configuration of all the semiotic features in a text which language may relate to layout and visual images
 * Genres (75) - forms of text or textual organization that arise out of particular social configurations or the particular relationships of the participants in an interaction
 * Dialects (75) - region or age-related designs
 * Voice (75) - more individual and personal, including discursive and generic factors
 * Metalanguages (77) - language talking about languages images, texts, and meaning-making interactions
 * Nominalization (79) - the process or result of forming a noun or noun phrase from a clause or a verb
 * Situated Practice (88) - immersion in experience and the utilization of available discourses, including student lifeworlds and simulations of relationships found in workplaces and public spaces
 * Overt Instruction (88) - systematic, analytic, and conscious understanding; requires introduction of metalanguages
 * Critical Framing (88) - interpreting the social and cultural context of particular Designs of meaning; viewing studies critically in relation to contexts
 * Transformed Practice (88) - transfer in meaning-making process where the transformed meanings are put into other contexts or cultural sites