02921oam 2200637I 450 991096656390332120251116234709.01-136-93278-X1-136-93279-81-282-56947-397866125694700-203-84622-210.4324/9780203846223 (CKB)2670000000013818(EBL)496372(OCoLC)609859083(SSID)ssj0000362308(PQKBManifestationID)12092592(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362308(PQKBWorkID)10364077(PQKB)10682909(MiAaPQ)EBC496372(Au-PeEL)EBL496372(CaPaEBR)ebr10382412(CaONFJC)MIL256947(OCoLC)648989349(EXLCZ)99267000000001381820180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage as a local practice /Alastair Pennycook1st ed.Milton Park, Abingdon ;New York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (176 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-54751-2 0-415-54750-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index.1. Introduction: language as a local practice -- 2. 'Press 1 for English': practice as the 'generic social thing' -- 3. The reverend on ice again: similarity, difference and relocalization -- 4. Talking in the city: the linguistic landscaping of locality -- 5. Kerala tuskers: language as already local -- 6. Alibangbang and ecologies of local language practices -- 7. 'Molding hearts-- leading minds-- touching lives': practice as the new discourse? -- 8. Conclusion: language as a local practice.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 as systems or as countable entities, and suggests instead that language emerges from the activities it performs. To look at language as a practice is to viewSociolinguisticsLanguage and languagesVariationSociolinguistics.Language and languagesVariation.306.44Pennycook Alastair1957-,626945MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966563903321Language as a local practice4482917UNINA