Language and change
Research in Language and Change centres around questions of language use and change under current conditions of globalization, yet always with a focus on how language is used at a local and community level. Research projects and publications focus on academic writing, technological mediation of language and multimodal communication, meaning making potential in body language, early literacy development in disadvantaged communities, forensic discourse analysis, language and development in international contexts, community language maintenance, gender and language education, and multilingual practices in urban spaces (metrolingualism).
Recent Publications
- Language as a Local Practice, Alastair Pennycook
- Appraising Research: Education in Academic Writing, Sue Hood
- Illegitimate Practices Global English Language Education, Jacquie Widin
- ELT, Gender and International Development, Rosyln Appleby
Related Projects
- Metrolingual language practices in four urban sites: Talking in the city
- Developing Early Literacy in Informal Settings
- Local Noise: Indigenizing hip-hop in Australia
- Postoccidental Englishes and rap
- The Post-colonial performativity project
- Emotion talk across corpora
- Emotionality in popular culture
Contact for Language and Change
Professor Alastair Pennycook
Alastair Pennycook
