Language and Mobility

Unexpected Places

AvAlastair Pennycook

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del 15 i serien Critical Language and Literacy Studies

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This 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, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts – from a journey to southern India to eating cheese in China, from playing soccer in Germany to observing a student teacher in Sydney – this book asks how it is that language, people and cultures turn up unexpectedly and how our lines of expectation are formed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-22
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:382 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781847697646

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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.

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This book offers Pennycook's always innovative theoretical insights in a brilliant, original blend of fine scholarship and personal narrative. It evocatively describes the author’s retracing of his family’s history in colonial India, draws on concepts from many disciplines, and makes unexpected and illuminating connections with language education.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg TreesChapter 2 Turning up in Unexpected PlacesChapter 3 Through Others’ Eyes and Thinking OtherwiseChapter 4 Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary ParentingChapter 5 Resourceful SpeakersChapter 6 Elephant TracksChapter 7 13 Ways of Looking at a BlackboardChapter 8 Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation