Language as a Local Practice

by Alastair Pennycook

Book Overview

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. It questions assumptions about languages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415547512
• ISBN13: 9780415547512
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"