The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity: Exploring Language and Identity

By Rani Rubdy

Book Overview

The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrate hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and ideological perspectives, the authors use contexts as diverse as social media, Bollywood films, workplaces and kindergartens to explore the ways in which English has become a part of localities and social relations in ways that are of significant sociolinguistic interest in understanding the dynamics of mobile cultures and transcultural flows.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783090847
• ISBN13: 9781783090846
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.2"