Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing posthumanist applied linguistics -- The planet, the people, animals and objects -- Posthumanist applied linguistics -- Posthumanist challenges -- From humanism to posthumanism: navigating this book -- 2 Posthumanism and the strange humanist subject -- The peculiar human subject -- Religion, science, immanence -- Human rights and situated ethics -- New materialisms -- Posthumanism and poststructuralism -- Beyond human exceptionalism -- 3 Distributed language, spatial repertoires and semiotic assemblages -- Finding your way underwater -- Extended and distributed cognition -- From individual trajectories to spatial repertoires -- Distributed language -- Conclusion: towards vibrant assemblages -- 4 The human hierarchy of senses -- There's nothing there -- Locating smell -- Cities, smells and the Other -- Semiotic, linguistic and sensory landscapes -- Language in the absence of sound -- Multisensory assemblages -- 5 Animals and language -- The killer whales of Eden -- Animal smarts -- Language and animals -- Missing the point -- An expanded account of language -- 6 Mutual misunderstanding -- Mutual intelligibility -- Dogmas of intersubjective conformity -- Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb -- Thinking otherwise -- Alignment, assemblages and attunement -- 7 Re-engaging with reality -- On mugs, rocks and tables -- The cat at the bottom of the garden -- Speculative and other realisms -- Back on the table -- Conclusion: critical posthumanist realism -- 8 Towards a posthumanist applied linguistic commons -- Entangled humans -- Posthumanist trends in applied linguistics -- Reclaiming the commons -- Conclusion: towards a critical applied linguistic commons -- References -- Index