Аннотация:My title 1 is meant to draw on the notion advanced by Alastair Pennycook of language as a local practice.In his recent book by that name, he argues that each utterance, no matter how conventional or repetitious it might seem, produces difference insofar as it operates in, and on, a different temporal and spatial location.Invoking the proverb that we can never step into the same river twice, Pennycook observes that even an apparently exact repetition of an utterance produces difference insofar as it takes place in a temporally as well as spatially different location and thus carries a different significance (Language 35).We, and the river, are simultaneously the same and not the same with each step we take.I'll have more to say about Pennycook and language generally below, but here, I simply want to sketch this notion for the help and, I believe, the hope that it offers for the struggles of those of us committed to basic writing.That hope comes from the perspective it gives us on the recurrence of what appear to be the same struggles, its argument for the necessity of engaging in these struggles, and the difference that these efforts make despite appear-Relocating
