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Literacy Practices in Working Life

This project, led by Anna-Malin Karlsson and Per Ledin, explores the literacy roles participants assume in various occupational settings. Focusing on communicative and activity roles, such as speaker-listener dynamics and specific professional interactions (e.g., doctor-patient), it underscores the importance of literacy in navigating workplace contexts. It also examines how workers adapt and access literacy practices in a knowledge-based economy, highlighting the evolving nature of literacy in professional roles. The study provides valuable insights into the complexities of literacy in working life.

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Literacy Practices in Working Life

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  1. Literacy Practices in Working Life www.nordiska.su.se/skriftbruk

  2. Swedish Research Council 2002-2004 • Anna-Malin Karlsson, Stockholm University • Per Ledin, Örebro University (project leader) • Olle Josephson, Swedish Language Council

  3. 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)

  4. 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)

  5. Literacy Roles through Genre Discourse Roles: • writer/author - reader/addressee – complementor + Activity Roles • describer/storyteller - recipient • planner - performer • controller - controlled • information demander - information provider

  6. The Carpenter Wall markings > performer Time report > information provider, controlled

  7. The Groundworkers Drawing > re-contextualisers interpreters, performers Reinforcement texts > re-contextualisers, problem solvers, (authors), performers

  8. The Truck Driver Cargo Information > recontextualiser, adjuster, planner, problem solver, information provider, controlled

  9. The Shop Assistant Weekly letter > recipient of information, performer, recipient of ideas, intermediary, partner (Notes > author, re-contextualiser, intermediary)

  10. 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 literacy practices

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