Religious events and their literacy practices in multilingual and multicultural communities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2009v6n2p17Abstract
In this article we describe and analyze social literacy practices in religious literacy events in two communities in Paraná: a multilingual community -German, Portuguese and Brazilian - and another one - Portuguese, Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Italian. We approach concepts as New Literacy Studies (NLS) (STREET, 2003, 2004, BAINHAM, 2004), Multilingual Literacies (MARTIN-JONES; JONES, 2000; MARTIN-JONES, 2009), Biliteracy (HORNBERGER, 2003a, 2003b, 2003c), and literacy as a social practice (BARTON, 2007). The proposed procedures are focused on notes from participant observation of some events, in the communities, such as catechesis, celebration of mass, religious meetings, interviews and written texts from the Internet. It also allowed for triangulation of data within each case study. The results showed that there is a different configuration of the multilingual reality that is co-constructed in the religious practices of literacy.