TheGlobal-Local Interface and Hybridity : : Exploring Language and Identity / / ed. by Rani Rubdy, Lubna Alsagoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alsagoff, Lubna,; Bhatt, Rakesh M.,; García, Ofelia,; Higgins, Christina,; Kamada, Laurel D.,; Lee, Jamie Shinhee,; Lorente, Beatriz P.,; Martin, Elizabeth,; Omoniyi, Tope,; Ooi, Vincent B.Y.,; Otsuji, Emi,; Pennycook, Alastair,; Roy, Anjali Gera,; Rubdy, Rani,; Saraceni, Mario,; Tan, Peter K.W.,; Tupas, T. Ruanni F.,; Villareal, Corazon D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Alsagoff, Lubna,; Rubdy, Rani,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• 1 The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization: Problematizing Hybridity
• Part 1 Interrogating the Canon
• 2 When Scapes Collide: Reterritorializing English in East Africa
• 3 Hybridity in the Linguistic Landscape: Democratizing English in India
• 4 (Un)Emancipatory Hybridity: Selling English in an Unequal World
• 5 Unremarkable Hybridities and Metrolingual Practices
• 6 Countering the Dual: Transglossia, Dynamic Bilingualism and Translanguaging in Education
• Part 2 Hybridized Discourses of Identity in the Media
• 7 Reading Gender in Indian Newspapers: Global, Local or Liminal?
• 8 Linguistic and Cultural Hybridity in French Web Advertising
• 9 What’s Punjabi Doing in an English Film? Bollywood’s New Transnational Tribes
• 10 Hybridizing Medialect and Entertaining TV: Changing Korean Reality
• Part 3 Multilingual Diaspora and the Internet
• 11 The Language of Malaysian and Indonesian Users of Social Networks: Practice vs System
• 12 Constructing Local and Global in the E-Borderland
• 13 Facebook, Linguistic Identity and Hybridity in Singapore
• Part 4 Performing Hybrid Cultural Identities
• 14 Contested and Celebrated Glocal Hybrid Identities of Mixed-Ethnic Girls in Japan
• 15 Singlish and Hybridity: The Dialogic of Outer-Circle Teacher Identities
• 16 Enacting Hybridity in the Philippine Diaspora
• 17 Reframing the Global-Local Dialectic and Hybridized Textual Practices
• Author Index
• Subject Index