{{Short description|English academic}} {{Promotional|date=November 2025}} '''Alastair Pennycook''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} is an Australian applied linguist. He is Emeritus Professor of Language, Society and Education at the [[University of Technology Sydney]],<ref>{{cite news |title=EM/Prof Alastair Pennycook |url=https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Alastair.Pennycook |access-date=8 July 2021 |publisher=University of Technology Sydney}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Professor Alastair Pennycook FAHA |url=https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=3741&ffc_page=23 |access-date=8 July 2021 |publisher=Australian Academy of the Humanities}}</ref>
Alastair Pennycook is an internationally renowned applied linguist<ref>{{Citation |last=Norton |first=Bonny |title=Pennycook, Alastair |date=2012 |work=The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0903 |access-date=2025-11-08 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0903 |isbn=978-1-4051-9843-1|url-access=subscription }}</ref> known for his work in four principal areas: Critical analysis of the global spread of English,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317892373 |title=The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language |date=2014-06-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-84360-5 |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781315843605}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |title=English and the discourses of colonialism |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-17847-1 |series=The politics of language |location=London; New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |title=Global Englishes and transcultural flows |date=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-37497-2 |edition=1. publ., repr |location=London}}</ref> critical applied linguistics,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781000402322 |title=Critical Applied Linguistics: A critical re ^introduction |date=2021-05-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-09057-1 |edition=2 |location=2nd edition. {{!}} New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003090571}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |title=Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the global South |last2=Makoni |first2=Sinfree |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-95176-3 |series=Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics |location=London; New York}}</ref> critical [[philosophy of language]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages |url=https://multilingualmatters.com/page/detail/Disinventing-and-Reconstituting-Languages/?k=9781853599255 |access-date=2025-11-08 |website=Multilingual Matters |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-assemblages/69E92BC7AB3FD83466D539C40DD61EB7 |title=Language Assemblages |date=2024 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-34865-2 |series=Key Topics in Applied Linguistics |location=Cambridge |doi=10.1017/9781009348638}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |title=Posthumanist applied linguistics |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-138-20922-0 |edition=First |location=London; New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |title=Language as a local practice |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-54750-5 |edition=1st |location=Abingdon; New York}}</ref> and studies of popular culture and urban multilingualism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennycook |first=Alastair |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315724225 |title=Metrolingualism: Language in the City |date=2015-03-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-72422-5 |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781315724225}}</ref> Four of his books have been awarded the BAAL Book Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Linguistics |first=British Association for Applied |title=Book Prize |url=https://www.baal.org.uk/what-we-do/book-prize/ |access-date=2025-11-08 |website=BAAL |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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== *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=The Cultural Politics Of English As An International Language |date=1994 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780582234727}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schultz |first1=Lyndsie Marie |title=Review: The cultural politics of English as an international language |journal=International Multilingual Research Journal |date=2019 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=70–72 |doi=10.1080/19313152.2018.1493905|s2cid=149487324 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1-link=Marnie Holborow |last1=Holborow |first1=Marnie |title=The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language |journal=ELT Journal |date=April 1996 |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=172–176 |doi=10.1093/elt/50.2.172}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=English and the Discourses of Colonialism |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415178488}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jordan |first1=John W. |title=English and the Discourses of Colonialism (review) |journal=Rhetoric & Public Affairs |date=200 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=95–97 |doi=10.1353/rap.2010.0100 |s2cid=144940704 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/370987|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Rachel |title=Book Review: English and the discourses of colonialism Alastair Pennycook (1998): London: Routledge|isbn=0-415-17847-9|journal=International Journal of Bilingualism |date=2001 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=104–107 |doi=10.1177/13670069010050010702|s2cid=143170612 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1-link=Ron Scollon |last1=Scollon |first1=Ron |title=Alastair Pennycook, English and the discourses of colonialism. London & New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xii, 239. Pb £14.99. |journal=Language in Society |date=January 2000 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=138–141 |doi=10.1017/S0047404500281037|s2cid=143849138 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Puddiford |first1=David |last2=McGivern |first2=Lynne |title=Review: English and the Discourses of Colonialism by ALASTAIR PENNYCOOK |journal=Discourse and Society |date=2000 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=277–279 |doi=10.1177/0957926500011002008 |jstor=42888312|s2cid=220400630 }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction |date=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780805837926}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fairclough |first1=Norman |title=Book Review |journal=Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction |date=2003 |volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=805–808 |doi=10.1177/09579265030146008|s2cid=220391396 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=(Review) Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction |journal=LEARN Journal |date=July–December 2015 |volume=8 |issue=2 |url=https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/LEARN/article/view/102669 |last1=Safari|first1=Parvin|last2=Rashidi|first2=Nasser}}</ref> *{{cite book |editor-last1=Makoni |editor-first1=Sinfree |editor-last2=Pennycook |editor-first2=Alastair |title=Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages |date=2007 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=9781853599231}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Timm |first1=Lenora |title=Book review: Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages, by Makoni, S., & Pennycock, [sic] A. (Eds.) |journal=Journal of Language, Identity & Education |date=2010 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=220–225 |doi=10.1080/15348458.2010.486278|s2cid=142648295 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Demont-Henrich |first1=Christof |title=Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook |journal=Journal of Sociolinguistics |date=June 2011 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=398–401 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00491.x}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415374972}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marsden |first1=Sharon |title=Alastair Pennycook. 2007. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows |journal=English World-Wide |date=January 2008 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=358–363 |doi=10.1075/eww.29.3.08mar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Turner |first=Will |date=Oct 2008|title=Book review: BETHAN BENWELL and ELIZABETH STOKOE, Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 314 pp. £16.99 (pbk). {{text|ISBN}}: 0748617507. ALASTAIR PENNYCOOK, Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge, 2006. 189 pp. £18.99 (pbk). {{text|ISBN}}: 9780415374972 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456080100050605 |journal=Discourse Studies |language=en |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=705–711 |doi=10.1177/14614456080100050605 |s2cid=143873702 |issn=1461-4456|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Prodromou |first1=Luke |editor-last1=Hawkins |editor-first1=Margaret |title=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 |journal=TESOL Quarterly |date=March 2009 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=153–159 |doi=10.1002/j.1545-7249.2009.tb00238.x |jstor=27784994}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=Language as a Local Practice |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415547512}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Le Nevez |first1=Adam |title=Review of Pennycook, A. (2010) Language as a Local Practice |journal=Australian Review of Applied Linguistics |date=January 2011 |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=241–243 |doi=10.1075/aral.34.2.07len}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s10993-010-9185-0 |last1=Sherris |first1=Arieh |title=Review: Alistair Pennycook: Language as a Local Practice Routledge, London and New York, 2010, vii + 167 pp, Pb $44.95, {{text|ISBN}} 978-0-415-54751-2 |journal=Language Policy |date=January 2011 |issue=10 |pages=93–95|s2cid=141348662 }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places |date=2012 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=9781847697646}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thornbury |first1=Scott |title=Review: Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places |journal=ELT Journal |date=October 2013 |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=491–494 |doi=10.1093/elt/cct043}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Fielding |first1=Ruth |title=Review of Pennycook, A. (2012) Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places |journal=Australian Review of Applied Linguistics |date=January 2013 |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=116–119 |doi=10.1075/aral.36.1.06fie}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |last2=Otsuji |first2=Emi |title=Metrolingualism: Language in the City |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415831659}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Simon |first1=Sherry |title=Review: Pennycook, Alastair and Otsuji, Emi (2015): Metrolingualism. Language in the City. Routledge: London/New York, 205 pages |journal=Meta |date=2016 |volume=61 |page=178 |doi=10.7202/1038693ar|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spindler Møller |first1=Janus |title=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=Journal of Sociolinguistics |date=February 2017 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=146–150 |doi=10.1111/josl.12220}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Jerry Won |title=Book review: Metrolingualism: language in the city |journal=Asian Englishes |date=2017 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=188–190 |doi=10.1080/13488678.2017.1302648|s2cid=133505541 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Laviosa |first1=Sara |title=Alastair Pennycook and Emi Otsuji. Metrolingualism: Language in the City |journal=Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts |date=January 2015 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=239–242 |doi=10.1075/ttmc.1.2.07lav}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |title=Posthumanist Applied Linguistics |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781138209220}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yao |first1=Xiaofang |title=Review: Posthumanist applied linguistics |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |date=September 2020 |issue=266 |pages=143–145 |doi=10.1515/ijsl-2020-2116|s2cid=226223154 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Harrison |first1=Simon |title=Posthumanist Applied Linguistics, Alastair Pennycook. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2018. Pp. x + 168. |journal=TESOL Quarterly |date=June 2020 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=525–527 |doi=10.1002/tesq.567|s2cid=219451153 }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Dovchin |first1=Sender |author-link1=Sender Dovchin|last2=Pennycook |first2=Alastair |last3=Sultana |first3=Shaila |title=Popular culture, voice and linguistic diversity: Young adults on- and offline |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |isbn=9783319619552}}<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nguyen Dao |title=Popular culture, voice and linguistic diversity: Young adults on- and offline, Dovchin, S., Pennycook, A., Sultana, S., Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. |journal=International Journal of Applied Linguistics |date=July 2019 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=268–270 |doi=10.1111/ijal.12245}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhao |first1=Jinghe |last2=Wang |first2=Jiayu |title=Review: Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, and Shaila Sultana, Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On-and Offline |journal=International Journal of Communication |date=2019 |volume=13 |url=https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13736}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Quentin |title=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 €. |journal=Language in Society |date=2019 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=147–149 |doi=10.1017/S0047404518001318|s2cid=206258258 }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Pennycook |first1=Alastair |last2=Makoni |first2=Sinfree |title=Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780429951756}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Huan Yik |title=Review of Pennycook & Makoni (2020): Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South |journal=Journal of Language and Politics |date=2020 |volume=20 |issue=4 |doi=10.1075/jlp.20060.lee|pages=626–629|s2cid=229499427 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wahyudi |first1=Ribut |title=Review: Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South |journal=Asian Englishes |date=2021 |doi=10.1080/13488678.2020.1868268|s2cid=233953410 |url=http://repository.uin-malang.ac.id/7994/1/7994.pdf }}</ref> *Pennycook, Alastair (2024). ''Language assemblages''. [[Cambridge University Press]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Milak |first=Eldin |date=2025-08-28 |title=Language Assemblages |url=https://academic.oup.com/applij/article/46/4/720/8196427 |journal=Applied Linguistics |language=en |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=720–723 |doi=10.1093/applin/amaf046 |issn=0142-6001|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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