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Overview

Alastair Pennycook is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their academic contributions situate primarily within the Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with particular emphasis on linguistics and language-related disciplines.

The scientist's research work spans several subfields including Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, Gender Studies, and Urban Studies. The main focus areas of their scholarship involve multilingual education and policy, second language learning and teaching, discourse analysis in language studies, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, language discourse and communication strategies, linguistic variation and morphology, and digital communication and language.

Alastair Pennycook has published extensively in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
  • Social Semiotics
  • World Englishes
  • Chinese Semiotic Studies

Recent papers authored by Pennycook cover topics related to applied linguistics and semiotics. Notable papers include:

  • "Critical applied linguistics in the 2020s," 2022, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • "Street art assemblages," 2022, Social Semiotics
  • "Translingual entanglements of English," 2020, World Englishes
  • "Critical Applied Linguistics," 2023, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
  • "Toward the total semiotic fact," 2023, Chinese Semiotic Studies

Their book publications are associated with Cambridge University Press, including titles such as "Language Assemblages" (2024) and "Multilingualism and Identity" (2022).

Throughout their career, Pennycook has collaborated with several researchers. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Emi Otsuji
  • Wendy Ayres-Bennett
  • John E. Joseph
  • Rory Finnin
  • Cécile Sabatier Bullock

Best Publications

  • The cultural politics of English as an international language

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Re-Introduction

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Language as a Local Practice

    Alastair Pennycook

  • English and the discourses of colonialism

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Disinventing and (Re)Constituting Languages

    Sinfree Makoni;Alastair Pennycook

  • Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux

    Emi Otsuji;Alastair Pennycook

  • The Concept of Method, Interested Knowledge, and the Politics of Language Teaching

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Introduction: Critical Approaches to TESOL.

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language

    H. Samy Alim;Awad Ibrahim;Alastair Pennycook

  • Global Englishes, Rip Slyme, and performativity

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Metrolingualism: Language in the City

    Alastair Pennycook;Emi Otsuji

  • The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language

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  • Metrolingualism

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  • Translanguaging and semiotic assemblages

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Critical applied linguistics

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Cultural alternatives and autonomy

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: ‘Pizza mo two minutes coming’

    Alastair Pennycook;Emi Otsuji

  • Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places

    Alastair Pennycook

  • Beyond Plagiarism: Transgressive and Nontransgressive Intertextuality

    Ranamukalage Chandrasoma;Celia Thompson;Alastair Pennycook

  • Vulgar Pragmatism, Critical Pragmatism, and EAP.

    Alastair Pennycook

  • English and the Discourses of Colonialism

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