Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places - Couverture rigide

Pennycook, Alastair

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184769764X ISBN 13 : 9781847697646

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2012

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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. --Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco, USA

In Language and Mobility Alastair Pennycook takes us, the readers, to new territories and domains of language - questioning, doubting and reflecting in new ways about what we do. In this fascinating and passionate journey we cross geographical and conceptual boundaries, places, spaces and time, mobilizing between India and Britain deeply embedded in family mobile and local histories. Along the journey, we deliberate with new meanings of nativity, hybridity, movement, mobility, localness, and meaning as these are anchored in rich pasts, in present functionality and unexpected futures. It is a passionate trip that touches the centrality of language in its broad context based on original documents, narratives and personal experiences, integrated together to argue for resistance and change. A powerful book that will not leave any readers un-changed. --Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184769764X
• ISBN 13: 9781847697646
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208