Description
This book looks at language in unexpected places. Through a series of personal and narrative accounts, it explores aspects of travel, mobility and locality to ask how languages, cultures and people turn up in unexpected places. What renders the unexpected so and how might we challenge our lines of expectation?
Author: Alastair Pennycook
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 06/22/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781847697639
ISBN10: 1847697631
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Historical & Comparative
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Sociolinguistics
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
About the Author
Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is widely known for his work on the politics of language, language and globalization, language and popular culture and language education. His current research is exploring urban multilingualism (metrolingualism). His recent book Language as a Local Practice was shortlisted for the BAAL book award, which he has won on two previous occasions for The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language and Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows.