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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg Trees
Chapter 2 Turning up in Unexpected Places
Chapter 3 Through Others’ Eyes and Thinking Otherwise
Chapter 4 Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary Parenting
Chapter 5 Resourceful Speakers
Chapter 6 Elephant Tracks
Chapter 7 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackboard
Chapter 8 Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation
Circa l’autore
Alastair Pennycook is Emeritus Professor (formerly Distinguished Professor) of Language, Society and Education at UTS. He is also a Research Professor at the Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is known for his work in three main areas: critical approaches to the global spread of English and English language teaching, critical applied linguistics, and sociolinguistic studies of multilingualism, diversity, popular culture and mobility. His most recent book (with Sinfree Makoni) is Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South (Routledge).
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