01501nam a2200277Ia 450000500170000000800410001724501100005810000230016826000550019130000230024630000110026950000480028002000220032865000350035065000460038565000350043165100280046665000360049405000180053054600120054850503010056052003270086133600090118833700150119733800110121220260803094100.0251212s2009    xx            000 0 und d1 aEnglish as a Local language : bPost colonial identities and Multilingual Practices /cChristina Higgins.  aHiggins, Christina  aSalisbury,UK :bBritish Library Cataloging,c2009.  axii, 171 p.: bill  c21 cm.  aIncludes bibliographic references and index  a978-1-84769-180-4  aEnglish languagezAfrica, East  aEnglish languagexVariationzAfrica, East  aSociolinguisticszAfrica, East  aAfrica, EastxLanguages  aEnglish languagexGlobalization  a427.6762 H53e  aEnglish  aMultivoiced 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.  aExplores 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.  aText  aUnmediated  aVolume