1st Edition

Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

By Alastair Pennycook Copyright 2007
200 Pages
by Routledge

189 Pages
by Routledge

189 Pages
by Routledge

The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts).... Read more
1. Hip Hop Be Connectin  2. Other Englishes  3.  Transgressive Theories  4. Performance and Performativity  5. Taking the Vernacular Voices of the Popular Seriously  6. English and the Global Spread of Authenticity  7.  Language Flows, Language Mixes  8. Hip Hop Pedagogies and Local Knowledge  References

Biography

Alastair Pennycook

'an important book that deserves to be widely read and discussed.' - Stephen Farrow, The Use of English