Posthumanist applied linguistics

Pennycook, A

Posthumanist applied linguistics

Pennycook, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Applied Linguistics, 2018, 39 (4), pp. 445 - 461
Issue Date:: 2018-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pennycook, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-6187	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Applied Linguistics, 2018, 39 (4), pp. 445 - 461	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0142-6001	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/125414
dc.description.abstract	Oxford University Press 2016 Posthumanism urges us to reconsider what it means to be human. From proclamations about the death of ‘Man’ to investigations into enhanced forms of being, from the advent of the Anthropocene (human-induced planetary change) to new forms of materialism and distributed cognition, posthumanism raises significant questions for applied linguistics in terms of our understandings of language, humans, objects, and agency. After reviewing the broad field of posthumanist thought, this paper investigates—through an overview of a series of recent research projects—the notion of repertoire, to show how this can be better understood by stepping out of the humanist constructs of the individual and the community and looking instead at the notion of distributed language and spatial repertoires. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of posthumanism for applied linguistics, in particular the ways we understand language in relation to people, objects, and place.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Applied Linguistics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1093/applin/amw016	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Languages & Linguistics	en_US
dc.title	Posthumanist applied linguistics	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	39	en_US
utslib.for	2004 Linguistics	en_US
utslib.for	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	39	en_US

Abstract:

Oxford University Press 2016 Posthumanism urges us to reconsider what it means to be human. From proclamations about the death of ‘Man’ to investigations into enhanced forms of being, from the advent of the Anthropocene (human-induced planetary change) to new forms of materialism and distributed cognition, posthumanism raises significant questions for applied linguistics in terms of our understandings of language, humans, objects, and agency. After reviewing the broad field of posthumanist thought, this paper investigates—through an overview of a series of recent research projects—the notion of repertoire, to show how this can be better understood by stepping out of the humanist constructs of the individual and the community and looking instead at the notion of distributed language and spatial repertoires. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of posthumanism for applied linguistics, in particular the ways we understand language in relation to people, objects, and place.

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