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Publication details [#54959]

Billings, Sabrina. 2011. ‘Education is the key of life’: Language, schooling, and gender in Tanzanian beauty pageants. Language & Communication 31 (4) : 295–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | gender | interpretation | language of instruction | language use

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article explores how education, and in particular its main product English, define Tanzanian beauty pageants both implicitly and explicitly. But educational models of language use in urban Tanzania are, once mobile, subject to reinterpretation, revision, and hierarchical reorganization.