1st Edition

Posthumanist Applied Linguistics

By Alastair Pennycook Copyright 2018
178 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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, with major implications for research, education and politics. Exploring the advent of the Anthropocene, new forms of materialism, distributed language, assemblages, and the... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction: Posthumanism and applied linguistics

Chapter 2 Posthumanism: Cyborgs and the Anthropocene

Chapter 3 Distributed language and cognition

Chapter 4 Language and the senses

Chapter 5 Discourse and reality

Chapter 6 Mutual misunderstanding

Chapter 7 What’s the point? Sharks, dogs and humans

Chapter 8 Posthumanist linguistics: new horizons

Biography

Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language in Education, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language (Routledge, 2017).

* WINNER OF THE BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2018 *

"The book is an invaluable contribution to the field of applied linguistics research and it will undoubtedly have a significant impact on applied linguistics practitioners and researchers." -- Aisha Ravindran, Simon Fraser University