Escritura e identidad: perspectivas socioculturales

Abstract

Despite the striking identity turn in sociocultural writing studies over the last 25 years, potential dialogue between research tradi-tions interested in this topic have remained little explored. In this paper we review the main contributions of different approaches to writing and identity — new literacy studies, studies drawing on sociocultural psychology, sociolinguistics of writing and mul-tiliteracies, new literacies and multimodality studies —, with a special focus on the emergence and development of this field of inquiry in Latin America. We go on to summarize the main theoretical and methodological orientations of this line of research, and present the articles included in this monographic issue. The paper shows a recent and rapidly-growing body of research, identifies connections between studies from different origins and illustrates new theoretical and ethological approaches which shed new light on texts, writing processes and writers by focusing on literacy practices in specific sociocultural contexts