In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the \'New Literacy Studies\'.
It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged and:.
This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts.
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the \'New Literacy Studies\'