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Informationen zum Autor Christina Higgins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Her main areas of interest are the sociopolitics of English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of multilingual societies. She has focused her research in Kenya and Tanzania, where she has investigated how multilingual individuals use English alongside their other languages to produce local and global identifications across domains such as workplace conversation, advertising, popular culture, and HIV/AIDS education. Klappentext This book explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies. By placing multilingual practices at the theoretical center, the author investigates a range of sociolinguistic domains to demonstrate how individuals use English as a local resource to produce an array of local and global identifications. Zusammenfassung This book explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial! globalizing societies. By placing multilingual practices at the theoretical center! the author investigates a range of sociolinguistic domains to demonstrate how individuals use English as a local resource to produce an array of local and global identifications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Multivoiced multilingualism 2. From pre-colonial beginnings to multivocality 3. Double voices in the workplace 4. Miss World or Miss Bantu? Competing dialogues on female beauty 5. The polyphony of East African hip hop 6. Selling fasta fasta in the East African marketplace 7. New wor(l)d order
