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Language and Mobility : Unexpected Places / Alastair Pennycook.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Language and Literacy StudiesPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847697646
  • 9781847697653
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.7
LOC classification:
  • P120.V37 P46 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg Trees -- 2. Turning Up in Unexpected Places -- 3. Through Others’ Eyes and Thinking Otherwise -- 4. Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary Parenting -- 5. Resourceful Speakers -- 6. Elephant Tracks -- 7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard -- 8. Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation -- References -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg Trees -- 2. Turning Up in Unexpected Places -- 3. Through Others’ Eyes and Thinking Otherwise -- 4. Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary Parenting -- 5. Resourceful Speakers -- 6. Elephant Tracks -- 7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard -- 8. Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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