Alastair Pennycook

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Alastair Pennycook (born 14 July 1957) is an applied linguist. He is Emeritus Professor of Language, Society and Education at the University of Technology Sydney, [1] and a Research Professor at the Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016. [2]

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  2. ↑ "Professor Alastair Pennycook FAHA". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Schultz, Lyndsie Marie (2019). "Review: The cultural politics of English as an international language". International Multilingual Research Journal. 13 (1): 70–72. doi:10.1080/19313152.2018.1493905. S2CID   149487324.
  4. ↑ Holborow, Marnie (April 1996). "The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language". ELT Journal. 50 (2): 172–176. doi:10.1093/elt/50.2.172.
  5. ↑ Jordan, John W. (200). "English and the Discourses of Colonialism (review)". Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 3 (1): 95–97. doi:10.1353/rap.2010.0100. S2CID   144940704.
  6. ↑ Wilson, Rachel (2001). "Book Review: English and the discourses of colonialism Alastair Pennycook (1998): London: Routledge". International Journal of Bilingualism. 5 (1): 104–107. doi:10.1177/13670069010050010702. ISBN   0-415-17847-9. S2CID   143170612.
  7. ↑ Scollon, Ron (January 2000). "Alastair Pennycook, English and the discourses of colonialism. London & New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xii, 239. Pb £14.99". Language in Society. 29 (1): 138–141. doi:10.1017/S0047404500281037. S2CID   143849138.
  8. ↑ Puddiford, David; McGivern, Lynne (2000). "Review: English and the Discourses of Colonialism by ALASTAIR PENNYCOOK". Discourse and Society. 11 (2): 277–279. doi:10.1177/0957926500011002008. JSTOR   42888312. S2CID   220400630.
  9. ↑ Fairclough, Norman (2003). "Book Review". Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. 14 (6): 805–808. doi:10.1177/09579265030146008. S2CID   220391396.
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  13. ↑ Marsden, Sharon (January 2008). "Alastair Pennycook. 2007. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows". English World-Wide. 29 (3): 358–363. doi:10.1075/eww.29.3.08mar.
  14. ↑ Turner, Will (Oct 2008). "Book review: BETHAN BENWELL and ELIZABETH STOKOE, Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 314 pp. £16.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0748617507. ALASTAIR PENNYCOOK, Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge, 2006. 189 pp. £18.99 (pbk). ISBN: 9780415374972". Discourse Studies. 10 (5): 705–711. doi:10.1177/14614456080100050605. ISSN   1461-4456. S2CID   143873702.
  15. ↑ Prodromou, Luke (March 2009). Hawkins, Margaret (ed.). "Book reviews: Language and Globalisation by Norman Fairclough; Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows by Alastair Pennycook; English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity by Jennifer Jenkins". TESOL Quarterly. 43 (1): 153–159. doi:10.1002/j.1545-7249.2009.tb00238.x. JSTOR   27784994.
  16. ↑ Le Nevez, Adam (January 2011). "Review of Pennycook, A. (2010) Language as a Local Practice". Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 34 (2): 241–243. doi:10.1075/aral.34.2.07len.
  17. ↑ Sherris, Arieh (January 2011). "Review: Alistair Pennycook: Language as a Local Practice Routledge, London and New York, 2010, vii + 167 pp, Pb $44.95, ISBN 978-0-415-54751-2". Language Policy (10): 93–95. doi:10.1007/s10993-010-9185-0. S2CID   141348662.
  18. ↑ Thornbury, Scott (October 2013). "Review: Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places". ELT Journal. 67 (4): 491–494. doi:10.1093/elt/cct043.
  19. ↑ Fielding, Ruth (January 2013). "Review of Pennycook, A. (2012) Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places". Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 36 (1): 116–119. doi:10.1075/aral.36.1.06fie.
  20. ↑ Simon, Sherry (2016). "Review: Pennycook, Alastair and Otsuji, Emi (2015): Metrolingualism. Language in the City. Routledge: London/New York, 205 pages". Meta. 61: 178. doi: 10.7202/1038693ar .
  21. ↑ Spindler Møller, Janus (February 2017). "Review: Alastair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji. Metrolingualism: Language in the City. Abingdon, U.K./New York: Routledge. 2015. 205 pp. Pb (9780415831659) £29.99". Journal of Sociolinguistics. 21 (1): 146–150. doi:10.1111/josl.12220.
  22. ↑ Lee, Jerry Won (2017). "Book review: Metrolingualism: language in the city". Asian Englishes. 19 (2): 188–190. doi:10.1080/13488678.2017.1302648. S2CID   133505541.
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  24. ↑ Yao, Xiaofang (September 2020). "Review: Posthumanist applied linguistics". International Journal of the Sociology of Language (266): 143–145. doi:10.1515/ijsl-2020-2116. S2CID   226223154.
  25. ↑ Harrison, Simon (June 2020). "Posthumanist Applied Linguistics, Alastair Pennycook. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2018. Pp. x + 168". TESOL Quarterly. 54 (2): 525–527. doi:10.1002/tesq.567. S2CID   219451153.
  26. ↑ Nguyen Dao (July 2019). "Popular culture, voice and linguistic diversity: Young adults on- and offline, Dovchin, S., Pennycook, A., Sultana, S., Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018". International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 29 (2): 268–270. doi:10.1111/ijal.12245.
  27. ↑ Zhao, Jinghe; Wang, Jiayu (2019). "Review: Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, and Shaila Sultana, Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On-and Offline". International Journal of Communication. 13.
  28. ↑ Williams, Quentin (2019). "Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, & Shaila Sultana, Popular culture, voice and linguistic diversity: Young adults on- and offline. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. Pp. xxi, 222. Hb. 103,99 €". Language in Society. 48 (1): 147–149. doi:10.1017/S0047404518001318. S2CID   206258258.
  29. ↑ Lee, Huan Yik (2020). "Review of Pennycook & Makoni (2020): Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South". Journal of Language and Politics. 20 (4): 626–629. doi:10.1075/jlp.20060.lee. S2CID   229499427.
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