Language as a Local Practice.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pennycook, Alastair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages)
ISBN:9780203846223
0203846222