Publications

Publication details [#51689]

Billings, Sabrina. 2009. Speaking beauties: Linguistic posturing, language inequality, and the construction of a Tanzanian beauty queen. Language in Society 38 (5) : 581–606.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | language and culture | language status | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Emphasizing language ideologies' local and hierarchical nature, this study discusses the common practice of deploying 'incomplete' high-status English knowledge for indexical and referential effects in beauty contests in multilingual Tanzania.