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Language as a local practice / Alastair Pennycook.

Pennycook, Alastair, 1957-
2010
306.44 P416l 2010
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Title
Language as a local practice / Alastair Pennycook.
Author
Pennycook, Alastair, 1957-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780415547505 (hbk : alk. paper)
0415547504 (hbk : alk. paper)
9780415547512 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415547512 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203846223 (ebk.)
0203846222 (ebk.)
Imprint
Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Language
English
Description
vii, 167 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
306.44 P416l 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)436311268
(OCoLC)436311268
Summary
This work 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.
Note
This work 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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