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CONTENTS
List of figures x
1 The futures of literacy: modes, logics and affordances 1
Affordances of mode and facilities of media 5
Right now, an objection 7
2 Preface 9
3 Going into a different world 16
Into new contexts for writing 16
The new environment of writing 19
Writing and literacy 21
Literacy 23
A next step: the alphabet 25
Transcription systems 28
Language, speech, writing 31
4 Literacy and multimodality: a theoretical framework 35
A need for new thinking 35
A ‘toolkit’ 37
The ‘decline of writing’ and cultural pessimism: means for conducting 51
a debate
Modes and fitness for purpose 51
Modes and the shaping of knowledge 53
Mode and epistemological commitment 55
Mode and causality 55
Mode and conceptual-cognitive complexity 57
