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Author:   Susanne Muhleisen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   190
Weight:   0.707kg
ISBN:  

9789004335264

ISBN 10:   9004335269
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   09 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Tables and Figures I: ON COMMUNITY Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion SUSANNE MUEHLEISEN Community and the Common ROBERT JC YOUNG II: COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective STEPHANIE HACKERT Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century DARIA DAYTER Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities SUSANNE MUEHLEISEN & ANNE SCHROEDER Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community ANDREA MOLL 'Africa is not a Game': Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online ERIC A. ANCHIMBE The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? DAGMAR DEUBER III: NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India TOBIAS DOERING Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's Soucouyant KATJA SARKOWSKY Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South Africa JOCHEN PETZOLD Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence STEPHAN LAQUE A 'furry subjunctive case' of Empathy: Human-Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism ROMAN BARTOSCH Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water SUSAN ARNDT IV: LANGUAGE,STYLE, AND BELONGING INMUSIC CULTURES Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaeton BRITTA SCHNEIDER Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda JUDE SSEMPUUMA V: COUNTER-ARGUMENT Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation CAROLYN COOPER At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper's Keynote Lecture Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation CAROLINE KOEGLER Notes on Contributors Index

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SUSANNE MUEHLEISEN is Professor of English Linguistics at Bayreuth University with a research and publication focus on English/contact varieties, pragmatics, and discourse communities in Africa and the Caribbean. A wide range of interests in postcolonial issues has also resulted in interdisciplinary collaborations, e.g., on postcolonial crime fiction, foodways, and Caribbean commodification.

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