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Author Higgins, Christina.

Title English as a local language : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices / Christina Higgins
Published Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical language and literacy studies
Critical language and literacy studies.
Contents Multivoiced multilingualism -- From pre-colonial beginnings to multivocality -- Double voices in the workplace -- Miss World or Miss Bantu? : competing dialogues on female beauty -- The polyphony of East African hip hop -- Selling fasta fasta in the East African marketplace -- New wor(l)d order
Summary Explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies. By placing multilingual practices at the theoretical center, this book investigates a range of sociolinguistic domains to demonstrate how individuals use English as a local resource alongside other languages in East Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index
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Subject English language -- Africa, East
English language -- Variation -- Africa, East
Sociolinguistics -- Africa, East
English language -- Globalization.
Sociolinguistics.
Social & cultural anthropology.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
English language
English language -- Globalization
English language -- Variation
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Mehrsprachigkeit
SUBJECT Africa, East -- Languages
Subject Africa, East
Ostafrika
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
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