21.1518, Books: Applied Linguistics/Ling & Lit/Sociolinguistics: Pennycook

Tue Mar 30 02:21:34 UTC 2010

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-1518. Mon Mar 29 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.1518, Books: Applied Linguistics/Ling & Lit/Sociolinguistics: Pennycook

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemeh at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 24-Mar-2010
From: Tara Thomas < tara.thomas at taylorandfrancis.com >
Subject: Language as a Local Practice: Pennycook

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:20:23
From: Tara Thomas [tara.thomas at taylorandfrancis.com]
Subject: Language as a Local Practice: Pennycook

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-1518.html&submissionid=2620475&topicid=2&msgnumber=1

Title: Language as a Local Practice 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/Language-as-a-Local-Practice-isbn9780415547512 

Author: Alastair Pennycook

Hardback: ISBN:  9780415547505 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 115.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780415547505 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415547512 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415547512 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 44.95

Abstract:

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality
and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how
language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.

By taking each of these three elements - language, locality and practice -
and exploring how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice
opens up new ways of thinking about language. It questions assumptions
about languages as systems or as countable entities, and suggests instead
that language emerges from the activities it performs. To look at language
as a practice is to view language as an activity rather than a structure,
as something we do rather than a system we draw on, as a material part of
social and cultural life rather than an abstract entity.

Language as a Local Practice draws on a variety of contexts of language
use, from bank machines to postcards, Indian newspaper articles to
fish-naming in the Philippines, urban graffiti to mission statements,
suggesting that rather than thinking in terms of language use in context,
we need to consider how language, space and place are related, how language
creates the contexts where it is used, how languages are the products of
socially located activities and how they are part of the action.

Language as a Local Practice will be of interest to students on advanced
undergraduate and post graduate courses in Applied Linguistics, Language
Education, TESOL, Literacy and Cultural Studies.

Language as a Local Practice can be previewed online at:
http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/dxreader/Reader.aspx?token=e9edfc8ee975499eafcc95438aa597f3&rand=144195666&buyNowLink= 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=46887

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	De Gruyter Mouton          
		http://www.degruyter.com/mouton	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

	University of Toronto Press          
		http://www.utpjournals.com/	

	Wiley-Blackwell          
		http://www.wiley.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Langues et Linguistique
		http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ 

	Linguistic Association of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

-----------------------------------------------------------
This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $65,000. This money will go to help 
keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our Space Fund 
Drive 2010 and join us for a great journey!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2010/

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at  
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: 
https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: 
http://linguistlist.org/donation/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as 
such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 
501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These 
donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return 
(U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact 
your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match 
any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your 
contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the 
EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple 
administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without 
costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if your company 
operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST! 
-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-1518	