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English as a local language : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices / Christina Higgins.

Author/creator Higgins, Christina
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, ©2009.
Descriptionxii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
English language--Africa, East.
English language--Variation --Africa, East.
Sociolinguistics--Africa, East.
English language--Globalization.
Africa, East--Languages.
Series Critical language and literacy studies
Critical language and literacy studies. ^A1021894
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and index.
LCCN 2009017378
ISBN9781847691811 (alk. paper)
ISBN1847691811 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781847691804 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1847691803 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN9781847691828 (ebook)
ISBN184769182X (ebook)

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