The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and methodological insights from both fields and provide detailed accounts of everyday practices of reading and writing in different multilingual settings. The focus is primarily on linguistic minority groups in Britain and on the language and literacy experiences of children and adults in rural and urban communities. Together, the chapters of the volume build up a rich and illuminating picture of specific ways in which literacy is bound up with cultural practices and with different ways of seeing the world. They also address fundamental questions about the relationship between language, literacy and power in multi-ethnic contexts.
Acknowledgements ix Contributors xi List of Figures xvii List of Tables xxi Foreword xxiii David Barton Introduction Multilingual literacies 1(16) Marilyn Martin-Jones Kathryn Jones Literacy events and literacy practices: theory and practice in the New Literacy Studies 17(14) Brian Street SECTION I: CHILDRENS WORLDS OF LITERACY: HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY 31(114) Work or play? `Unofficial literacies in the lives of two East London communities 37(18) Eve Gregory Ann Williams Power relations and the social construction of `literacy and `illiteracy: the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham 55(16) Adrian Blackledge Learning to read and write at home: the experience of Chinese families in Britain 71(20) An Ran Language, literacy and world view 91(12) Viv Edwards Hubisi Nwenmely Language and literacy practices in Gujarati Muslim families 103(24) Raymonde Sneddon Children writing in a multilingual nursery 127(18) Charmian Kenner SECTION II: TEXTS, IDENTITIES AND ADULT WORLDS 145(84) Enterprising women: multilingual literacies in the construction of new identities 149(22) Marilyn Martin-Jones Writing switching in British Creole 171(18) Mark Sebba Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy events 189(20) Mike Baynham Helen Lobanga Masing Texts, mediation and social relations in a bureaucratised world 209(20) Kathryn Jones SECTION III: CREATING SPACES FOR MULTILINGUAL LITERACIES IN LOCAL COMMUNITY CONTEXTS 229(44) Languages and literacies for autonomy 233(14) Ahmed Gurnah Gender, literacy and community publishing in a multilingual context 247(26) Yasmin Alam SECTION IV: RESEARCHING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES IN THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS 273(80) Taking account of history and culture in community-based research on multilingual literacy 275(24) Mukul Saxena Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: images and understandings of researcher and researched 299(20) Rachel Hodge Kathryn Jones Constructing a critical, dialogic approach to research on multilingual literacy: participant diaries and diary interviews 319(34) Kathryn Jones Marilyn Martin-Jones Arvind Bhatt Afterword Multilingual literacies, literacy practices, and the continua of biliteracy 353(16) Nancy Hornberger Bibliography 369(20) Index 389
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