Matilda’s Literacy Practices in Roald Dahl’s “Matilda”

DOI

10.2991/soshec-18.2018.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New Literacy Studies; literacy practices

Abstract

Literacy practices give an idea to see what people do with literacy rather than seeing it as ability in reading and writing. Roald Dahl’s Matilda is chosen as the data because this book contains many depictions of literacy practices. This book has been broadly used to foster children’s reading habit. This study is a literary study which aims to reveal Matilda’s literacy practices in Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Using textual analysis which focuses on Roald Dahl’s Matilda as the main source of the data, this study employs New Literacy Studies to discuss the issue of this study. New Literacy Studies shows how to see literacy as social practices. To know what people do with the text, it can be analyzed from literacy event, what text is included, values, feelings, attitudes, and social relationship. The analysis shows that Matilda does literacy practices for three purposes; as pleasure, escape, and power

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Rizka Rachmania Putri
AU  - Pratiwi Retnaningdyah
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DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Matilda’s Literacy Practices in Roald Dahl’s “Matilda”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference: Establishing Identities through Language, Culture, and Education (SOSHEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/soshec-18.2018.40
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