37.1833, Books: Languaging: Dovchin (2026)

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Date: 19-May-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Languaging: Dovchin (2026)


Title: Languaging
Subtitle: Playfulness and Precarity
Series Title: Key Topics in Applied Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/languaging-playfulness-and-precarity?format=HB&isbn=9781009526937

Author(s): Sender Dovchin

Paperback ISBN:  9781009526920 Pages:  198 Price: U.K. £ 25.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009526920 Pages:  198 Price: Europe EURO 29.18
Paperback ISBN:  9781009526920 Pages:  198 Price: U.S. $ 33.00

Abstract:

Reconceptualising language as a dynamic, relational, and embodied
practice, this book explores the concept of languaging. Moving beyond
static, standardised, and purified understandings of languages, it
traces how communication is lived, contested, and embodied across
urban, rural, and remote mobility, everyday encounters, classroom
pedagogies, and digital platforms. Through critical analyses of First
Knowledging and First Languaging, nomadic languaging and knowledging,
racialised and AI-mediated communication, it highlights how languaging
is both playful and precarious. It entails creativity and resistance,
while also exposing language users to inequality and surveillance, and
is deeply entangled with histories of colonialism, racial hierarchies,
and displacement. Concluding with the concept of pedagogical
languaging, the book calls for a reimagining of education as
interactional design, rather than the delivery of standardised
curricula, with learning environments where diverse semiotic
repertoires - linguistic, embodied, cultural, and digital - are
recognised as epistemic resources rather than treated as deficits.

Written In: English (eng)



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