English as a local language
Subtitle: post-colonial identities and multilingual practices
By: Christina Higgins.
Series: Critical language and literacy studies -- 2
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781847691811; 9781847691804; 9781847691828
Subjects: English language -- Africa, East; English language -- Variation -- Africa, East; Sociolinguistics -- Africa, East; English language -- Globalization; Africa, East -- Languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multivoiced multilingualism; title: From pre-colonial beginnings to multivocality; title: Double voices in the workplace; title: Miss World or Miss Bantu: competing dialogues on female beauty; title: The polyphony of East African hip hop; title: Selling fasta fasta in the East African marketplace; title: New wor(l)d order.