Heritage Literacy
Emphasizes not just the "piling up and spreading out" of accumulation, but also the ways that literacy practices pass back and forth between generations; the old in form the new, the new impact the old. It incorporates multimodal literacy practices, moves the emphasis of accumulation toward a broad set of sign technologies and systems.
What is heritage literacy?
Approach where students learn to use multiple forms of communication effectively.
What is both/and?
Geographical varieties of a language
What is dialects?
Where two or more elements are placed next to one another in a single space or moment “to create meaning and communicate ideas to an audience,”
What is juxtaposition?
A piece of communication that uses multiple ways (or modes) to get its message across!
What is multimodal?
Modifying for new contexts, for example traditional letter-writing into texting with family
What is Adaptation?
What is silence?
Social traits (age, profession, ethnicity) that inform language practices
What is sociolects?
Can help evoke emotions (cultural association) in the viewer while also helping the viewer distinguish what’s important or what should be emphasized.
What is color?
You will analyze a text's language choices to understand the communication techniques and their impact on the audience. Is the text successful in convincing its audience? What is the action the author wants the audience to take?
What is Rhetorical Analysis?
Types of literacy that is not necessarily or exclusively print or alphabetic literacies.
What is codified sign systems?
Provide information for a scene, serve as a cue reference, help in mood creation, act as an emotional stimulus.
What is sound effects?
Unique language patterns that are distinctive from everyone else's
What is idiolects?
Can create order in something disorderly, offering the eyes a sense of where to go or how to differentiate between different elements.
What is line?
The actual, real readers you're writing to.
What is audience addressed?
They 'picked it up' informally from others who used only spoken language-not printed materials-to pass on knowledge (outside of the classroom)
What is Lirico?
Can be broken down even further into several qualities that carry culturally formed communicative meanings: Tension, Roughness, Breathiness, Loudness, Pitch, Vibrato
What is voice?
Integration of linguistic resources through the mix of grammatical structures and words and the rhetorical styles of various ethnic and cultural groups in both formal and informal speech acts
What is code-meshing?
Happens when you explicitly borrow ideas or material from another text, for example using photos or graphic images like charts or memes that someone else created
What is intertextuality?
The audience the writer creates or imagines through the text itself.
What is audience invoked?
Shows that literacy learning is communal, not individual. You don't just inherit literacy from parents - you absorb it from an entire network of relationships across: religious, civic, commercial, and educational contexts.
What is compadrazgo?
Integrated approach to emphasize the relationship among the elements of sound and amount the modes of a multimodal text.
What is sound interaction?
A counter-argument towards the "myth of linguistic homogeneity"
What is translingualism?
Happens when you implicitly borrow or riff off the rhetorical choices of another text or writer, for example formatting your paper and citations in a certian way because other texts do it.
What is interdiscursivity?
The circumstance or condition that invites a response
What is exigence?