Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places

by Alastair Pennycook

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847697631
• ISBN13: 9781847697639
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"