English as a Local language : Post colonial identities and Multilingual Practices /
Higgins, Christina
English as a Local language : Post colonial identities and Multilingual Practices / Christina Higgins. - Salisbury,UK : British Library Cataloging, 2009. - xii, 171 p.: ill 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
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.
English
978-1-84769-180-4
English language--Africa, East
English language--Variation--Africa, East
Sociolinguistics--Africa, East
English language--Globalization
Africa, East--Languages
427.6762 H53e
English as a Local language : Post colonial identities and Multilingual Practices / Christina Higgins. - Salisbury,UK : British Library Cataloging, 2009. - xii, 171 p.: ill 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
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.
English
978-1-84769-180-4
English language--Africa, East
English language--Variation--Africa, East
Sociolinguistics--Africa, East
English language--Globalization
Africa, East--Languages
427.6762 H53e