By Christina Higgins
This e-book explores how multilingualism related to English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies. via putting multilingual practices on the theoretical heart, the writer investigates various sociolinguistic domain names to illustrate how participants use English as a neighborhood source along different languages in East Africa to supply an array of neighborhood and international identifications.
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37 four leave out global or pass over Bantu? Competing Dialogues on woman good looks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sixty five five The Polyphony of East African Hip Hop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety two 6 promoting Fasta Fasta within the East African industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 7 New Wor(l)d Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 v Acknowledgements The examine during this booklet is the end result of fieldwork in East Africa that i've got performed over a seven 12 months interval, starting with my doctoral dissertation in 2001. i'm without end thankful to the heat, reputation and assistance of the various Tanzanians and Kenyans whom i've got met through the years who made it attainable for me to check their language practices. i want to thank the complete employees of the Tanzanian Gazette (pseudonym) in Dar es Salaam for his or her generosity and realizing whereas I them all through their day-by-day actions and recorded their paintings conversations in 2001. They not just made it attainable to review their multilingual practices, yet additionally they welcomed me into their lives with one of those hospitality I had by no means sooner than witnessed. Asanteni sana! i might additionally wish to thank the various hip hop artists who graciously allowed me to check and reproduce their lyrics, specifically those that entertained my questions on transnational id with American varieties of song. i'm quite thankful to Ngwair, Dola Soul and loopy GK. additionally, i want to thank James Gayo, the gifted cartoonist and manufacturer of Kingo, for permitting me to breed a few of his advantageous paintings, and in addition for supporting to spark my curiosity within the tensions, double meanings and double entendres came upon throughout a lot East African pop culture. i'd additionally wish to thank the various Tanzanians who helped me to realize a feeling of ways they interpreted the hybrid literacies in hip hop and ads, and who consistently had feedback for the place to seem subsequent. i'd additionally wish to realize the large contribution of the study assistants who helped me to transcribe, translate and make experience of the hot types of language that I by no means encountered in my Swahili classes in college school rooms within the usa. such a lot of all, James Nindi Brown has been necessary to my appreciation of the linguistic variety in Tanzania, and his wisdom, reliable nature and friendship is actually liked. i'd additionally prefer to thank Neema Yohana, Davis Kasongoyo, Gilbert Ndeoruo and Max Rugenge for his or her necessary information. vii viii English as an area Language My gratitude additionally is going to the Tanzania fee for technology and know-how (COSTECH) for granting me permission to hold out study. i'm additionally thankful for investment from the dep. of English on the college of Wisconsin-Madison and for summer time delivers from the school of Languages, Linguistics and Literature and the collage learn Council of the collage of Hawai’i at Manoa.