Language and mobility: Unexpected places

Pennycook, A

Language and mobility: Unexpected places

Pennycook, A

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Citation:: 2012, pp. 1 - 190
Issue Date:: 2012-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pennycook, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-6187	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2012, pp. 1 - 190	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781847697639	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17729
dc.description.abstract	© 2012 Alastair Pennycook. All rights reserved. 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.	en_US
dc.title	Language and mobility: Unexpected places	en_US
dc.type	Book
utslib.for	200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)	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
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© 2012 Alastair Pennycook. All rights reserved. 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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