Language and mobility [[electronic resource] ] : unexpected places / / Alastair Pennycook

• Autore: Pennycook Alastair <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Variation; Intercultural communication; Communication, International; Native language and education
• Soggetto non controllato: colonial India; language and mobility; language education; language hybridity; language learning; literacy studies; native speaker; personal narratives; sociolinguistics; travel, mobility and locality; unexpected places
• Classificazione: HE 150
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg Trees -- 2. Turning Up in Unexpected Places -- 3. Through Others’ Eyes and Thinking Otherwise -- 4. Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary Parenting -- 5. Resourceful Speakers -- 6. Elephant Tracks -- 7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard -- 8. Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts – from a journey to southern India to eating cheese in China, from playing soccer in Germany to observing a student teacher in Sydney – this book asks how it is that language, people and cultures turn up unexpectedly and how our lines of expectation are formed.
• Titolo autorizzato: Language and mobility
• ISBN: 1-280-99873-3; 9786613770349; 1-84769-765-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779376303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical language and literacy studies ; ; 15.