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Language, water, power / Alastair Pennycook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pennycook, Alastair, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in language and power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles.
- Sociolinguistics.
- sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of language, history, culture, society and politics. Working through different engagements with water – swimming, surfing, sailing and diving – this Element explores how thinking in and with water can transform our understandings of justice, power and language. By taking water seriously as both a social and material category, hydrosocial perspectives draw attention to the ways modern water and language are controlled, restricted, standardized and contained. A hydrocolonial lens focuses on the centrality of water in colonial regimes, the oceanic origins of creoles and the need to decolonize control and conceptions of water. For critical hydrosocial language studies language is entangled in an inequitable watery world, and language study from below is a form of spiritual, material and embodied engagement."-- From Cambridge Core.
- Contents:
- From bottled water to water languaging
- Swimming laps: modern water and filtered languages
- Bodyboarding at Bronte: language and embodiment
- Sailing through the heads: hydrocolonial relations
- Watching weedies 20 meters down: other worlds
- Critical hydrosocial language studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 26, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : Pennycook, Alastair, 1957- Language, water, power.
- ISBN:
- 9781009736480
- 1009736485
- 9781009736510
- 1009736515
- OCLC:
- 1585500033
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000365870
- CIPO000381814
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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