Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and social practice in a remote Indigenous community by Inge Kral (The Australian National University) has just been published by Multilingual Matters in Britain.
It is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of south-east Western Australia. This study traces the Ngaanyatjarra from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in the 1930s at Warburton Ranges Mission to the recent arrival of digital literacies and new media across the region. This unique work examines changing social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Multilingual Matters is selling it on their website at 20% discount.
For those in Canberra on Thursday August 23 the book will be launched by Professor Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne) at the ANU Co-op Bookshop at 5.30pm.
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