Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
|
Volume: 6 Number: 2 Page: 113–123
doi:10.2167/laic231.0
|
|
|
|
|
Indigenous Writing in Brazil: Towards a Literacy of Vision and Transformation
|
Elisa Maria Costa Pereira de S. Thiago
University of São Paulo, Brazil
|
|
This paper argues that knowledge is culturally articulated and varies according to the locus of enunciation. Its proposition is that knowledge should cease to be seen as neutral, scientific and universal. Such a change in the way knowledge is seen requires a discussion of literacy and writing as also being culturally specific. The argument forwarded in this paper in favour of a renewed perspective on knowledge as culturally marked derives from the study of a particular phenomenon: the multimodal narratives produced by indigenous teachers in the context of indigenous schools in Brazil.
Keywords: writing, indigenous education, multimodality, literacy
© 2006 E.M.C. Pereira de S. Thiago
Access this article
|
