English as a Local language : Post colonial identities and Multilingual Practices / Christina Higgins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salisbury,UK : British Library Cataloging, 2009.Description: xii, 171 p.: ill; 21 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 978-1-84769-180-4
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 427.6762 H53e
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.
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Includes bibliographic references and index

English

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.

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.

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