Christina Higgins

English as a Local Language: Post-Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

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Explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies. By placing multilingual practices at the theoretical center, this book investigates a range of sociolinguistic domains to demonstrate how individuals use English as a local resource in East Africa to produce local and global identifications.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84769-180-4
EAN: 9781847691804
Produktnummer: 16225078
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.1 cm 246 g
Auflage: New
Reihenbandnummer: 2
Gewicht: 246

Über den Autor

Christina Higgins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Her main areas of interest are the sociopolitics of English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of multilingual societies. She has focused her research in Kenya and Tanzania, where she has investigated how multilingual individuals use English alongside their other languages to produce local and global identifications across domains such as workplace conversation, advertising, popular culture, and HIV/AIDS education.