Subaltern Linguistics: A Toolkit for Alternative Education and Practice - Paperback

by Ahmar Mahboob (Author), Aurelie Mallet (Author), Lee Cheng Koay (Author)

Subaltern Linguistics and Practice challenges the goals and theoretical foundations of colonial linguistics, academia, and education and provides alternative approaches and practices.

Author Biography

Ahmar Mahboob, also known as Sunny Boy Brumby and Prof Nomad, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. They were recognised as field leader in English language and literature by the Australian Magazine in 2019 and their poetry was inducted into the Australian Poetry Hall of Fame, Guyra, NSW, in 2021. They are the founding Editor- in- Chief of the upcoming Routledge Resource Online: English in the Real World.

Aurelie Mallet holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney. She has a focus on medical discourse, in particular public health discourse. Her PhD utilised the principles of Positive Discourse Analysis to deconstruct and analyse Australia's successful National Tobacco Campaign, leading to the proposal of a new campaign targeting excessive sugar. Aurelie currently works for NSW Health in the training and education of health staff.

Lee Cheng Koay holds a Master of Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics and a Master of Health Communication. With a background in educational writing and health communication, Lee Cheng is currently conducting her PhD studies to integrate CREDIBLE into the development of a health campaign, specifically on endometriosis in Malaysia.