Alastair Pennycook

Alastair Pennycook FAHA is an Australian 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]

Alastair Pennycook is an internationally renowned applied linguist ^[3] known for his work in four principal areas: Critical analysis of the global spread of English, ^{[4] [5] [6]} critical applied linguistics, ^{[7] [8]} critical philosophy of language, ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]} and studies of popular culture and urban multilingualism. ^[13] Four of his books have been awarded the BAAL Book Prize. ^[14] Several key themes unite this diverse body of work: an insistence on understanding the politics of language, the ways in which language use is always bound up with questions of social power; the need to explore what language and languages are rather than accepting the ways they are described in orthodox linguistics; and the importance of understanding things locally, of seeing how things operate in their particular environments.

Books

• Pennycook, Alastair (1994). The Cultural Politics Of English As An International Language. Routledge. ISBN   9780582234727. ^{[15] [16]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (1998). English and the Discourses of Colonialism. Routledge. ISBN   9780415178488. ^{[17] [18] [19] [20]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2001). Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Routledge. ISBN   9780805837926. ^{[21] [22]}
• Makoni, Sinfree; Pennycook, Alastair, eds. (2007). Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages. Multilingual Matters. ISBN   9781853599231. ^{[23] [24]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2007). Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. Routledge. ISBN   9780415374972. ^{[25] [26] [27]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2010). Language as a Local Practice. Routledge. ISBN   9780415547512. ^{[28] [29]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2012). Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places. Multilingual Matters. ISBN   9781847697646. ^{[30] [31]}
• Pennycook, Alastair; Otsuji, Emi (2015). Metrolingualism: Language in the City. Routledge. ISBN   9780415831659. ^{[32] [33] [34] [35]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2017). Posthumanist Applied Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN   9781138209220. ^{[36] [37]}
• Dovchin, Sender; Pennycook, Alastair; Sultana, Shaila (2018). Popular culture, voice and linguistic diversity: Young adults on- and offline. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN   9783319619552. ^{[38] [39] [40]}
• Pennycook, Alastair; Makoni, Sinfree (2020). Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South. Routledge. ISBN   9780429951756. ^{[41] [42]}
• Pennycook, Alastair (2024). Language assemblages. Cambridge University Press. ^[43]

References

1. "EM/Prof Alastair Pennycook". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
2. "Professor Alastair Pennycook FAHA". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
3. Norton, Bonny (2012), "Pennycook, Alastair" , The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0903, ISBN   978-1-4051-9843-1 , retrieved 2025-11-08
4. Pennycook, Alastair (2014-06-03). The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315843605. ISBN   978-1-315-84360-5.
5. Pennycook, Alastair (1998). English and the discourses of colonialism. The politics of language. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-17847-1.
6. Pennycook, Alastair (2008). Global Englishes and transcultural flows (1. publ., repr ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-37497-2.
7. Pennycook, Alastair (2021-05-19). Critical Applied Linguistics: A critical re ^introduction (2 ed.). 2nd edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003090571. ISBN   978-1-003-09057-1.
8. Pennycook, Alastair; Makoni, Sinfree (2020). Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the global South. Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-429-95176-3.
9. "Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages". Multilingual Matters. 2006. Retrieved 2025-11-08.
10. Pennycook, Alastair (2024). Language Assemblages. Key Topics in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009348638. ISBN   978-1-009-34865-2.
11. Pennycook, Alastair (2018). Posthumanist applied linguistics (First ed.). London; New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN   978-1-138-20922-0.
12. Pennycook, Alastair (2010). Language as a local practice (1st ed.). Abingdon; New York: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-54750-5.
13. Pennycook, Alastair (2015-03-05). Metrolingualism: Language in the City (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315724225. ISBN   978-1-315-72422-5.
14. Linguistics, British Association for Applied. "Book Prize". BAAL. Retrieved 2025-11-08.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. Fairclough, Norman (2003). "Book Review". Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. 14 (6): 805–808. doi:10.1177/09579265030146008. S2CID   220391396.
22. Safari, Parvin; Rashidi, Nasser (July–December 2015). "(Review) Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction". LEARN Journal. 8 (2).
23. Timm, Lenora (2010). "Book review: Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages, by Makoni, S., & Pennycock, [sic] A. (Eds.)". Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 9 (3): 220–225. doi:10.1080/15348458.2010.486278. S2CID   142648295.
24. Demont-Henrich, Christof (June 2011). "Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook". Journal of Sociolinguistics. 15 (3): 398–401. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00491.x.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. Thornbury, Scott (October 2013). "Review: Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places". ELT Journal. 67 (4): 491–494. doi:10.1093/elt/cct043.
31. 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.
32. 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 .
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. Laviosa, Sara (January 2015). "Alastair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji. Metrolingualism: Language in the City". Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts. 1 (2): 239–242. doi:10.1075/ttmc.1.2.07lav.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. Wahyudi, Ribut (2021). "Review: Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South" (PDF). Asian Englishes. doi:10.1080/13488678.2020.1868268. S2CID   233953410.
43. Milak, Eldin (2025-08-28). "Language Assemblages" . Applied Linguistics. 46 (4): 720–723. doi:10.1093/applin/amaf046. ISSN   0142-6001.