- Earth Wide Moth on "New London Group, 'A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies'" (wonders, among other things, about "the absence of 'rhetoric'" from NLG's discussion--I wonder if it's b/c NLG doesn't seem to have any rhetoricians participating?)
- Pinyin News on "Hakka and Chinese Characters" (Chinese article--mentions the problems of using Chinese characters to express Hakka words and how Taiwan's government's Council for Hakka Affairs is trying to work them out. Remind me some time to record the Hakka I learned last Saturday that I can use the next time my wife's grandmother asks me why we don't have any kids yet...)
OK. Back to the diss. Classes start next Thursday, so...
You're right, Jon. Thanks for posting the link to the roster. I hadn't looked into NLG's membership, but I was struck by their encompassing treatment of "design"--clearly a key term in their opening chapter on multiliteracies. In class today, we covered the NLG's orientation to semiotics and related views on meaning, language, and so on.
ReplyDeleteThough I haven't read the book, the use of the word "design" reminds me of a book on language teaching that I came across, by Richard Kern--Literacy and Language Teaching, published by Oxford UP. You can see from his table of contents that there's a heavy emphasis on "design" in this book. Kern appears to have been influenced by the NLG. Or do they cite his book in theirs?
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether the NLG cites Kern. We only looked at the first chapter of Multiliteracies, and I didn't pursue any related explorations. It'd be interesting to look at design and rhetoric in the context of the NLG, Kern and maybe even Kaufer and Butler's Rhetoric and the Arts of Design (which I've only leafed through, but not read closely).
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