Language and Mobility : Unexpected Places

Name: Language and Mobility
Brand: Channel View Publications Ltd
SKU: 9781847697639
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9781847697639

by Alastair Pennycook

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Critical Language and Literacy Studies

ISBN-10 1847697631

ISBN-13 9781847697639

Publisher Channel View Publications Ltd

Imprint Multilingual Matters

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 22nd, 2012

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 302 grams

Dimensions 21.20 x 15.10 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Sociolinguistics National liberation & independence, post-colonialism Cultural studies Cultural studies National liberation and independence

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This book looks at language in unexpected places. Through a series of personal and narrative accounts, it explores aspects of travel, mobility and locality to ask how languages, cultures and people turn up in unexpected places. What renders the unexpected so and how might we challenge our lines of expectation?

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.

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