TY - BOOK AU - Pennycook, Alastair. TI - Language as a local practice SN - 0415547512 U1 - 306.44 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Language and languages--Variation N1 - Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: language as a local practice 2. 'Press 1 for English': practice as the 'generic social thing' 3. The reverend on ice again: similarity, difference and relocalization 4. Talking in the city: the linguistic landscaping of locality 5. Kerala tuskers: language as already local 6. Alibangbang and ecologies of local language practices 7. 'Molding hearts, leading minds, touching lives': practice as the new discourse? 8. Conclusion: language as a local practice References ER -