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Publication details [#52873]
Higgins, Christina M. 2009. English as a Local Language. Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practice. (Critical Language and Literacy Studies). Multilingual Matters. 176 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Drawing on the Bakhtinian multivocality concept, and using discourse analytic and ethnographic approaches, this book explores how multilingual East Africans employ English as a local everyday resource in (constraint) hybrid transcultural ways.