Language and mobility unexpected places

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,...

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Main Author Pennycook, Alastair
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol Multilingual Matters 2012
Edition1st ed.
SeriesCritical Language and Literacy Studies
Subjects
Anthropology
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Communication, International
Cultural & Social
Education
Intercultural communication
Language and languages
Language and languages—Variation
Language Arts & Disciplines
Language spread
Linguistics
Native language and education
Political Science
Social Science
Sociolinguistics
Variation
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Summary: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.
ISBN:1847697658
9781847697646
184769764X
9781847697639
1847697631
9781847697653
DOI:10.21832/9781847697653