International Literacy Day and The Lockdown Library Project

Sep 8, 2022 ยท 17m 24s
International Literacy Day and The Lockdown Library Project
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To mark International Literacy Day 2022 (08 September), Dr Marcello Giovanelli and Dr Abigail Boucher discuss literacy and its affect on society as well as a recap of their Lockdown...

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To mark International Literacy Day 2022 (08 September), Dr Marcello Giovanelli and Dr Abigail Boucher discuss literacy and its affect on society as well as a recap of their Lockdown Library Project during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†

International Literacy Day is celebrated on the 8th September every year. Itโ€™s been that way since the first one in 1967.

Worldwide, 775 million lack minimum literacy skills, one in five adults are still not literate and two-thirds of those are women. 60.7 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out. South Asia has the lowest regional adult literacy rate (58.6%), followed by sub-Saharan Africa (59.7%). Countries with the lowest literacy rates in the world are Burkina Faso (12.8%), Niger (14.4%) and Mali (19%)

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜

The Lockdown Library Project explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the publicโ€™s reading habits through an online survey.

The Aston University team was interested in whether people increased or reduced their reading, chose particular books or genres to read, revisited books from the past and changed the ways they talk about books with other people since the lockdown. Nearly 900 people took part.

๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ, ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„

Dr Marcello Giovanelli ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3TMAu19

Dr Abigail Boucher ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3RD0YAv

The Lockdown Library Project ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3TGyOqh

Courses related to this show ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3enZD28

๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐— ๐˜† ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ณ

Save Me From My Shelf is a literature podcast hosted by friends Abigail Boucher (lecturer in English, languages and applied linguistics) and Daniel Jenkin-Smith (postdoc) and academics in Birmingham, England.

Join them as they take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it!

Website ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3cNWmsr

Spotify ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://spoti.fi/3KNIAmm

Acast ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3RHRrYK

Apple Podcasts ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://apple.co/3qy3bBX

Twitter ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3TEjTg2

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ป

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony, but whose work is in fact multi-faceted and complex in theme and shifted in style considerably throughout his lifetime.

The author starts from the premise that a more systematic account of Sassoonโ€™s style is possible using the methodology of contemporary stylistics, in particular Cognitive Grammar.

Using this as a starting point, he revisits common ideas from Sassoon scholarship and reconfigures them through the lens of cognitive stylistics to provide a fresh perspective on Sassoon's style. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, war poetry, twentieth-century literature, and cognitive linguistics.

Find out more ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3BhUPV2

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