Language as a local practice
By: Alastair Pennycook
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780415547505; 9780415547512; 9780203846223
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: language as a local practice; title: 2. 'Press 1 for English': practice as the 'generic social thing'; title: 3. The reverend on ice again: similarity, difference and relocalization; title: 4. Talking in the city: the linguistic landscaping of locality; title: 5. Kerala tuskers: language as already local; title: 6. Alibangbang and ecologies of local language practices; title: 7. 'Molding hearts; title: leading minds; title: touching lives': practice as the new discourse?; title: 8. Conclusion: language as a local practice.