Volume 12 in the Critical Language and Literacy Studies series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Retracing Routes: Manjari Seeds and Nutmeg Trees

2. Turning Up in Unexpected Places
The Ordinariness of the Unexpected -- Transgression and the Boundaries of the Expected -- Moving Moments -- Being Out of Place --
Writing and the Personal: The Passion behind the Trade -- Expecting the Unexpected

3. Through Others' Eyes and Thinking Otherwise
Through Others' Eyes -- Ethics and the Other -- Critical Resistance

4. Constrained Mobilities: Epistolary Parenting
From the Trenches to Cheruvally -- 'Mullamutu, Have You Heard That Our Sinna-Dorri is Going to be Married?' -- Epistolary Parenting: 'Everyone at Home Should be Proud to be Shabby' -- Traces of Empire

5. Resourceful Speakers
A Double Failure to Pass -- Native and Non-native English Teachers -- Proficient, Passable or Legitimate Speakers -- Speaking Like a Local -- The Racial Construction of Nativeness -- Resourcefully Passing as a Non-native Speaker

6. Elephant Tracks
'With Painful Feelings of Deep and Genuine Regret...' Farewell Addresses -- Creating Local Worlds: Genres, Discourses and Styles --
Language, Class, and Globalization -- Not Just the Oddity of Unusual Juxtapositions

7. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard

8. Beyond the Boundaries of Expectation
An Indian Game Accidentally Discovered by the English -- War Oil an Novys'th on ni scollys a-les -- Conclusion: As Expected

References

Index

"This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts – from a journey to southern India to eating cheese in China, from playing soccer in Germany to observing a student teacher in Sydney – this book asks how it is that language, people and cultures turn up unexpectedly and how our lines of expectation are formed." ( Book Cover)