| Description |
1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Language as a local practice; 2 'Press 1 for English': Practice as the 'generic social thing'; 3 The Reverend on Ice again: Similarity, difference and relocalization; 4 Talking in the city: The linguistic landscaping of locality; 5 Kerala tuskers: Language as already local; 6 Alibangbang and ecologies of local language practices; 7 'Molding hearts Leading minds Touching lives': Practice as the new discourse?; 8 Conclusion: Language as a local practice; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Variation
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203846223 |
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0203846222 |
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