Higgins, Christina,

English as a local language : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices / Christina Higgins. - xii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Critical language and literacy studies . - Critical language and literacy studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multivoiced multilingualism -- From pre-colonial beginnings to multivocality -- Double voices in the workplace -- Miss World or Miss Bantu? : competing dialogues on female beauty -- The polyphony of East African hip hop -- Selling fasta fasta in the East African marketplace -- New wor(l)d order.

1847691811 9781847691811 1847691803 9781847691804

2009017378


English language--Africa, East
English language--Variation--Africa, East
Sociolinguistics--Africa, East
English language--Globalization


Africa, East--Languages

PE3431 / .E545 2009

427.676