Pennycook, Alastair.
Language as a local practice/
Alastair Pennycook.
- New York: Routledge, 2010.
- vii, 167 p. ; 24 cm.
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
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Sociolinguistics
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