Language and Mobility

Unexpected Places

• Author(s): Alastair Pennycook,
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Pages: 190
• ISBN_10: 1847697631
  ISBN_13: 9781847697639
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... This book looks at language in unexpected places. Through a series of personal and narrative accounts, it explores aspects of travel, mobility and locality to ask how languages, cultures and people turn up in unexpected places. What renders the unexpected so and how might we challenge our lines of expectation?