LEADER 03780nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910972837903321 005 20251116204644.0 010 $a9786612465901 010 $a9781847691828 010 $a184769182X 010 $a9781282465909 010 $a1282465902 010 $a9781847696939 010 $a1847696937 024 7 $a10.21832/9781847691828 035 $a(CKB)2550000001217671 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24191453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC449889 035 $a(DE-B1597)513646 035 $a(OCoLC)646818184 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847691828 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL449889 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10323604 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246590 035 $a(OCoLC)593239909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31758942 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31758942 035 $a(Perlego)571634 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0069395 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001217671 100 $a20090504d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnglish as a local language $epost-colonial identities and multilingual practices /$fChristina Higgins 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBuffalo $cMultilingual Matters$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 171 p. )$cill 225 1 $aCritical language and literacy studies ;$v2 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 08$a9781847691804 311 08$a1847691803 311 08$a9781847691811 311 08$a1847691811 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Multivoiced Multilingualism --$tChapter 2. From Pre-colonial Beginnings to Multivocality --$tChapter 3. Double-Voices in the Workplace --$tChapter 4. Miss World or Miss Bantu? Competing Dialogues on Female Beauty --$tChapter 5. The Polyphony of East African Hip Hop --$tChapter 6. Selling Fasta Fasta in the East African Marketplace --$tChapter 7. New Wor(l)d Order --$tAppendix --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aWhen analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace conversation, beauty pageants, hip hop and advertising. Drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of multivocality, the author uses discourse analysis and ethnographic approaches to demonstrate the range of linguistic and cultural hybridity found across these domains, and to consider the constraints on hybridity in each context. By focusing on the cultural and linguistic bricolage in which English is often found, the book illustrates how multilinguals respond to the tension between local identification and dominant conceptualizations of English as a language for global communication. 410 0$aCritical language and literacy studies ;$v2. 606 $aEnglish language$zAfrica, East 606 $aEnglish language$xVariation$zAfrica, East 606 $aSociolinguistics$zAfrica, East 606 $aEnglish language$xGlobalization 607 $aAfrica, East$xLanguages 615 0$aEnglish language 615 0$aEnglish language$xVariation 615 0$aSociolinguistics 615 0$aEnglish language$xGlobalization. 676 $a427/.676 700 $aHiggins$b Christina$01896148 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972837903321 996 $aEnglish as a local language$94550558 997 $aUNINA