Metrolingualism (Pocket)
avAlastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji, Alastair Pennycook
ISBN: 9780415831659 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of 'metrolingualism', showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and linguistic resources. Cities and languages ar[...]
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows (Storpocket)
avAlastair Pennycook
ISBN: 9780415374972 - UTGIVEN: 200612The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and t[...]
Language as a Local Practice (Storpocket)
avAlastair Pennycook
ISBN: 9780415547512 - UTGIVEN: 201002Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity. By taking each of these three elements -- language, locality and practice -- and exploring ho[...]
Critical Applied Linguistics (Pocket)
avAlastair Pennycook
ISBN: 9780805837926 - UTGIVEN: 2001-02-12Critical applied linguistics is an approach to critical questions in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains. This text provides an overview, highlighting problems, debates and competing views in different domains.[...]
Language and Mobility (Pocket)
avAlastair Pennycook
ISBN: 9781847697639 - UTGIVEN: 201206This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, [...]
