The English Language and the Construction of Cultural and Social Identity in Zimbabwean and Trinbagonian Literatures
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
ISBN-10
0820444952
ISBN-13
9780820444956
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2000
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
474 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.00 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Society & culture: general
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This study is unique in that it blends insights from post-colonial literary theory, sociolinguistics, and the social psychology of language use to compare the nature, function, and meaning of English in the delineation of cultural and social identities in anglophone Zimbabwean and Trinbagonian literatures. These identities are communicated through certain nativization strategies and the power and politics of English. The study emphasizes that the variations in the linguistic practices of Zimbabwean and Trinbagonian (and, indeed, other post-colonial) writers cumulatively establish different meanings (identities/subjectivities) from those of the users of the hegemonic or putative standard English linguistic code.
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