TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins, Christina
TI  - English as a Local language : : Post colonial identities and Multilingual Practices 
SN  - 978-1-84769-180-4
AV  - 427.6762 H53e 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Salisbury,UK
PB  - British Library Cataloging
KW  - English language
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - Variation
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Languages
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -