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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introducing posthumanist applied linguistics; The planet, the people, animals and objects; Posthumanist applied linguistics; Posthumanist challenges; From humanism to posthumanism: navigating this book; 2 Posthumanism and the strange humanist subject; The peculiar human subject; Religion, science, immanence; Human rights and situated ethics; New materialisms; Posthumanism and poststructuralism; Beyond human exceptionalism; 3 Distributed language, spatial repertoires and semiotic assemblages |
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Finding your way underwaterExtended and distributed cognition; From individual trajectories to spatial repertoires; Distributed language; Conclusion: towards vibrant assemblages; 4 The human hierarchy of senses; There's nothing there; Locating smell; Cities, smells and the Other; Semiotic, linguistic and sensory landscapes; Language in the absence of sound; Multisensory assemblages; 5 Animals and language; The killer whales of Eden; Animal smarts; Language and animals; Missing the point; An expanded account of language; 6 Mutual misunderstanding; Mutual intelligibility |
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Dogmas of intersubjective conformityRhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb; Thinking otherwise; Alignment, assemblages and attunement; 7 Re-engaging with reality; On mugs, rocks and tables; The cat at the bottom of the garden; Speculative and other realisms; Back on the table; Conclusion: critical posthumanist realism; 8 Towards a posthumanist applied linguistic commons; Entangled humans; Posthumanist trends in applied linguistics; Reclaiming the commons; Conclusion: towards a critical applied linguistic commons; References; Index |
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"Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources from urban multilingualism to studies of animal communication, Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament that present important new political, ethical and intellectual possibilities. Exploring a range of topics from language and discourse to the individual, context, cognition and communication, eight incisive chapters by one of the world's foremost applied linguists open up alternative avenues for research and education, and urge us to question the ways in which we think about the boundaries between: humans and other animalshumans and objectshumans and nature. From proclamations about the death of 'Man' and the advent of the Anthropocene to discussions of new forms of materialism, distributed language and assemblages, this critical posthumanist applied linguistics perspective on the planet and the environment is essential reading for all researchers and students in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics."--Provided by publisher |
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Applied linguistics -- Social aspects
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Multilingualism -- Social aspects
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Language and education.
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Language and culture.
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Language and culture
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Language and education
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Multilingualism -- Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315457574 |
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1315457571 |
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9781315457567 |
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1315457563 |
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9781315457543 |
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1315457547 |
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9781138209220 |
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1138209228 |
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9781138209244 |
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1138209244 |
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