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The ease with which people and messages flow around world poses significant questions with regards to literacy and its mobility and inequality in the age of globalization. This book considers how 'grassroots' literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments of the developed world.
What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.

Produktbeschreibung
The ease with which people and messages flow around world poses significant questions with regards to literacy and its mobility and inequality in the age of globalization. This book considers how 'grassroots' literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments of the developed world.
What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.
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Autorenporträt
Jan Blommaert is Distinguished Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, as well as Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Tilburg University. His publications include Debating Diversity (co-author, Routledge, 1998), Language Ideological Debates (editor, 1999) and Discourse: A Critical Introduction (author, 2005).