Strangely bordered entities: languages, bodies, animals and things

Professor Alastair Pennycook

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language in Education at the University of Technology Sydney. He has worked in language education in many parts of the world and is best known for his work on the global spread of English, critical applied linguistics, language and popular culture, and language as a local practice.

Three of his books – The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language (Longman, 1994), Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows (Routledge, 2007), and Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places (Multilingual Matters, 2012) – have been awarded the BAAL Book Prize. His recent work has focused on urban multilingualism, leading to the book (with Emi Otsuji), Metrolingualism: Language in the city, (Routledge, 2015).

Lately he has been working on the idea of critical applied posthumanist sociolinguistics.

Abstract

It is not just the borders between countries and cultures, and the resultant co-constructions of language, nation and ethnicity, that we need to address in any attempt to rethink the possibilities of language, but also the... [ view full abstract ]

Session

KN-5 » Keynote (18:30 - Thursday, 28th June, F&PAA Lecture Theatre)