Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages by Alastair Pennycook, Sinfree Makoni

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Alastair Pennycook, Sinfree Makoni

272 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are ta...

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