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200 10$aLanguage as a local practice /$fAlastair Pennycook
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aMilton Park, Abingdon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010.
215   $a1 online resource (176 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163) and index.
327   $a1. 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.
330   $aLanguage 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 view
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