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Publication details [#51512]

Banda, Felix and Omondi Oketch. 2009. 'What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech?': institutionalised discourse and interaction in development projects in a rural community in Kenya. Journal of multicultural discourses 4 (2) : 165–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

developing nation | hybrid speech act | intercultural communication | language use | technical language

Language as a subject

English | Kenyan

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the high-tech English institutionalised discourse of Western development agents in the Kenian Nyanza Province, is transformed into a hybrid discourse to fit in with local communities' discourse practices.