English As a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices - Couverture souple

Higgins, Christina

 
9781847691804: English As a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices
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ISBN 10 : 1847691803 ISBN 13 : 9781847691804
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2009

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Christina Higgins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Her main areas of interest are the sociopolitics of English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of multilingual societies. She has focused her research in Kenya and Tanzania, where she has investigated how multilingual individuals use English alongside their other languages to produce local and global identifications across domains such as workplace conversation, advertising, popular culture, and HIV/AIDS education.

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Éditeur
Multilingual Matters
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847691803
ISBN 13 
9781847691804
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1847691811 ISBN 13 :  9781847691811
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2009
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