English As a Local Language - Post-Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

Informationen zum Autor Dr Christina Higgins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she teaches courses in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and intercultural communication. Her recent research has focused on communication in NGO-sponsored HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness education in Tanzania, where she has investigated the discursive construction of local and global worldviews. In her book, English as a local language: Post-colonial identities and multilingual practices (Multilingual Matters), she has also explored the role of language and popular culture in HIV/AIDS awareness efforts in hip hop lyrics and in public health advertisements. Her website can be found at http: //www2.hawaii.edu/ cmhiggin. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Higgins, Christina (University of Hawai'i At Manoa Higgins, Christina (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Higgins
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9781847691811
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-181-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories