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

    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 boundaries between humans, other animals and objects, eight incisive chapters by one of the world's foremost applied linguistics open up profound questions to do with language and the world. This critical posthumanist applied linguistic perspective is essential reading for all researchers and students in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics.

    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