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Language as a local practice/ Alastair Pennycook.

By: Pennycook, AlastairMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Routledge, 2010Description: vii, 167 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415547512Subject(s): Sociolinguistics | Language and languages--Variation DDC classification: 306.44

Contents:

Acknowledgements 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 References.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.44 PEN/L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P41157

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Acknowledgements

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

References.

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