Literacy Practices in Working Life .
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Literacy Practices in Working Life
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• Swedish Research Council 2002-2004
• Anna-Malin Karlsson, Stockholm University• Per Ledin, Örebro University (project leader)• Olle Josephson, Swedish Language Council
Literacy Roles
• Roles assigned (or offered) to participants in - and through - a literacy practice
• C.f. “It is in certain roles people need particular literacies (---) People learn that socially there are appropriate and inappropriate practices for specific roles.” (Barton 1994, pp 41-42)
Communicative Roles on the Meso-Level
• Discourse Roles: speaker, addressee, “ratified overhearer”, audience etc
• Activity Roles: doctor - patient (in the medical consultation), interrogator - interrogated (in the police interrogation)
Linell (2005)
Literacy Roles through Genre
Discourse Roles:• writer/author - reader/addressee – complementor+Activity Roles• describer/storyteller - recipient• planner - performer• controller - controlled• information demander - information provider
The Carpenter
Wall markings> performer
Time report> information provider,
controlled
The Groundworkers
Drawing> re-contextualisers
interpreters, performers
Reinforcement texts> re-contextualisers,
problem solvers, (authors), performers
The Truck Driver
Cargo Information> recontextualiser, adjuster,
planner, problem solver, information provider, controlled
The Shop Assistant
Weekly letter> recipient of information,
performer, recipient of ideas, intermediary, partner
(Notes> author, re-contextualiser,
intermediary)
Literacy Roles and the Knowledge-Based Economy?
• New roles for workers– Right to re-contextualise – Access to authorship (also of genre texts?)– Recipients (and intermediaries) of ideas
• More and varying roles– Plan and perform, control and be controlled– Access to a larger part (and different aspects of) of the
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