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English as a Local Language: Post-Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

English as a Local Language: Post-Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

Higgins, Christina

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Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies, Book 2

LinguisticsAnthropologyGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 1847691811
ISBN13: 9781847691811
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: Jul 8 2009
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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.

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