English as a Local Language

Name: English as a Local Language
Brand: Channel View Publications Ltd
SKU: 9781847691804
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Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

Автор: Christina Higgins

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Channel View Publications Ltd

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When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from...

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Автор

Christina Higgins

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

184

EAN

9781847691804

ISBN

1847691803

Enbook ID

05102287

Издател

Channel View Publications Ltd

Теглоt

246

Размери

149 x 209 x 11

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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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