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  • Language, Water, Power

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series series Elements in Language and Power
    This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of language, history, culture, society and politics. Working through different engagements with water – swimming, surfing, sailing and diving – this Element explores how thinking in and with water ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mesonia

    World of Gewissae, #1

    by Gerildean Pennycook ...
    Series Book 1 - World of Gewissae
    Dreams haunt my sleep, telling me I'm the only one who can save Mesonia from the evil clutches of Ecio Pyrrus. But just what can I, little Celine Jones, do about a world that exists only in my nightmares. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metrolingualism

    Language in the City

    by Alastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji ...
    This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of ‘metrolingualism’, showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and linguistic resources. Cities and languages are in constant change, as new speakers with new repertoires come into contact as a result of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Critical Applied Linguistics

    A Critical Re-Introduction

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Now in its second edition, this accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview of the problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation, and other language-related domains. Covering both critical theory and domains of practice, the book is organized around five themes: the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Language Assemblages

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series series Key Topics in Applied Linguistics
    What are languages? An assemblage approach to language gives us ways of thinking about language as dynamic, constructed, open-ended, and in and of the world. This book unsettles regular accounts of knowledge about language in several ways, presenting an innovative and provocative framework for a new understanding of language from within applied linguistics. The idea of assemblages allows for a ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • English and the Discourses of Colonialism

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series series The Politics of Language
    English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit masks the crucial issue that the traces left by colonialism run deep.This challenging and provocative book looks particularly at English, English language teaching, and colonialism. It reveals how the practice of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South

    by Alastair Pennycook, Sinfree Makoni ...
    Series series Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics
    Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable world, and are not confined to the geographical South. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Language and Mobility

    Unexpected Places

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts).This ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Posthumanist Applied Linguistics

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources, from urban multilingualism to studies of animal communication, Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament, with major implications for research, education and politics.Exploring the advent of the Anthropocene, new forms of materialism, distributed language, assemblages, and the boundaries ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Language as a Local Practice

    by Alastair Pennycook ...
    Language as a Local Practice 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.By taking each of these three elements – language, locality and practice – and exploring how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice opens up new ways of thinking about language. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD