Language Assemblages

by Alastair Pennycook

What are languages? An assemblage approach to language gives us ways of thinking about language as dynamic, constructed, open-ended, and in and of the world. This book unsettles regular accounts of knowledge about language in several ways, presenting an innovative and provocative framework for a new understanding of language from within applied linguistics. The idea of assemblages allows for a flexibility about what languages are, not just in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009348620
• ISBN13: 9781009348621
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"