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English as a Local Language
- Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices
Engelsk Paperback
English as a Local Language
- Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9781847691804
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1847691803
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
8 jul 2009
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
149mm
Højde:
209mm
Forlag:
Channel View Publications Ltd
Oplagsdato:
8 jul 2009
Forfatter(e):
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