{"title":"Alastair Pennycook","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlastair Pennycook’s works explore the dynamic intersections of language, culture, and society with a particular focus on multilingualism and education. His writing challenges traditional views and offers fresh perspectives on how languages function within urban and multicultural settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analysis grounded in sociolinguistics, emphasising the fluid and evolving nature of language practices around the world. His contributions are essential for those interested in language education, applied linguistics, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"metrolingualism-by-alastair-pennycook-9780415831635","title":"Metrolingualism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of \u003cem\u003emetrolingualism\u003c\/em\u003e, showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and linguistic resources. Cities and languages are in constant change, as new speakers with new repertoires come into contact as a result of globalisation and the increased mobility of people and languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetrolingualism\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light on the ordinariness of linguistic diversity as people go about their daily lives, getting things done, eating and drinking, buying and selling, talking and joking, drawing on whatever linguistic resources are available. Engaging with current debates about multilingualism, and developing a new way of thinking about language, the authors explore language within a number of contemporary urban situations, including cafés, restaurants, shops, streets, construction sites and other places of work, in two diverse cities, Sydney and Tokyo. This is an invaluable look at how people of different backgrounds get by linguistically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetrolingualism: Language in the city\u003c\/em\u003e will be of special interest to advanced undergraduate\/postgraduate students and researchers of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606912418028,"sku":"9780415831635","price":388.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d8983bdc73ac9ebf1340f1c376f40594.jpg?v=1778191310"},{"product_id":"the-cultural-politics-of-english-as-an-international-language-by-alastair-pennycook-9780415788120","title":"The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Politics of English as an International Language\u003c\/i\u003e explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003einternational politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ecolonial history\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ecritical pedagogy\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003epostcolonial literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book provides a critical understanding of the concept of the ‘worldliness of English’, or the idea that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReissued with a substantial preface, this Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a landmark text, which led a much-needed critical and ideologically-informed investigation into the burgeoning topic of World Englishes. Key reading for all those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607923015916,"sku":"9780415788120","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c7019f30d02a92485d971ecbfd22a3b7.jpg?v=1778186447"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alastair-pennycook.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}