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English as a local language : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices / / Christina Higgins



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Autore: Higgins Christina Visualizza persona
Titolo: English as a local language : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices / / Christina Higgins Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 171 p. ) : ill
Disciplina: 427/.676
Soggetto topico: English language - Africa, East
English language - Variation - Africa, East
Sociolinguistics - Africa, East
English language - Globalization
Soggetto geografico: Africa, East Languages
Soggetto non controllato:
Discourse analysis
East African Hip Hop
English as a global language
English as a lingua franca
English language
Ethnography
Globalisation
Local language
Localized English
Multilingualism
Post-colonialism
Sociolinguistics
Tanzania
Note generali: Formerly CIP.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Multivoiced Multilingualism -- Chapter 2. From Pre-colonial Beginnings to Multivocality -- Chapter 3. Double-Voices in the Workplace -- Chapter 4. Miss World or Miss Bantu? Competing Dialogues on Female Beauty -- Chapter 5. The Polyphony of East African Hip Hop -- Chapter 6. Selling Fasta Fasta in the East African Marketplace -- Chapter 7. New Wor(l)d Order -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: When 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.
Titolo autorizzato: English as a local language  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84769-182-X
9786612465901
1-282-46590-2
1-84769-693-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816212703321
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Serie: Critical language and literacy studies ; ; 2.