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BL
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962491
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b716861
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| Main Entry
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Higgins, Christina.
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| Title & Author
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English as a local language : : post-colonial identities and multilingual practices /\ Christina Higgins.
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| Publication Statement
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Bristol, UK ;Buffalo, NY :: Multilingual Matters,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Critical language and literacy studies
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1282465902
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: 1847691803
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: 1847691811
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: 184769182X
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: 1847696937
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: 6612465905
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: 9781282465909
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: 9781847691804
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: 9781847691811
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: 9781847691828
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: 9781847696939
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: 9786612465901
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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 alongside other languages in East Africa.
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English language-- Globalization.
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English language-- Variation-- Africa, East.
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English language-- Africa, East.
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Sociolinguistics-- Africa, East.
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English language-- Globalization.
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English language-- Variation.
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English language.
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Language and languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- General.
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Mehrsprachigkeit
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National liberation independence, post-colonialism.
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Social cultural anthropology.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Africa, East, Languages.
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Africa, East.
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Englisch.
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Ostafrika
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| Dewey Classification
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427/.676
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| LC Classification
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PE3431.E545 2009eb
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