Pennycook, Alastair
Language Assemblages (Key Topics in Applied Linguistics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781009348621
- author:
- Pennycook, Alastair
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 212
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 1.1 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Language Arts, Study & Teaching,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Alastair Pennycook challenges traditional notions of language in this innovative and thought-provoking book. An assemblage approach to language offers a fresh perspective, considering language as dynamic, constructed, open-ended, and embedded in the world around us.
This book unsettles regular accounts of knowledge about language, presenting a new framework for understanding language from within applied linguistics. By exploring what constitutes language more generally, Pennycook reveals that languages are assembled from diverse elements, including both traditional linguistic components and items less commonly included.
With this fresh perspective, the boundaries between language and our embodied existence become blurred. This book looks at the nature of language and what it means to be a language in order to gain a deeper understanding of applied linguistics itself as a practical assemblage.
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