Language as a local practice / Alastair Pennycook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennycook, Alastair, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Language 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 how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice opens up new ways of thinking about language. It questions assumptions about languages as systems or as countable entities, and suggests instead that language emerges from the activities it performs. To look at language as a practice is to view

Contents:

1. Introduction: language as a local practice

2. 'Press 1 for English': practice as the 'generic social thing'

3. The reverend on ice again: similarity, difference and relocalization

4. Talking in the city: the linguistic landscaping of locality

5. Kerala tuskers: language as already local

6. Alibangbang and ecologies of local language practices

7. 'Molding hearts

leading minds

touching lives': practice as the new discourse?

8. Conclusion: language as a local practice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-93278-X

1-136-93279-8

1-282-56947-3

9786612569470

0-203-84622-2

9780203846223

OCLC:

609859083