TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billings,Sabrina
TI  - Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen
T2  - Encounters
SN  - 9781783090754
AV  - PE3432.T36 B55 2013
U1  - 427/.9678 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - Beauty contests
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - English language
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - East Africa
KW  - Gender
KW  - Language policy
KW  - Poverty
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Language Ideologies, Linguistic Registers and the Sociolinguistic Landscape of Swahili and English in Tanzania --; 3. ‘From the Geneva of Africa’: Beauty Pageants, National Culture and Tanzanian Femininity --; 4. ‘I Am Very Good at Expressing Myself, Especially in English’: The Packaging of Privilege in the Making of Tanzanian Beauty Queens --; 5. ‘Education is the Key of Life’: Contestants as Schoolgirls in Pursuit of an Escape --; 6. ‘Which is Your Favourite Color?’ Race and Ethnicity in a Color- Blind Tanzania --; 7. Kutafuta Maisha: ‘Looking for a Life’ from the Edge of the Globe --; Appendix --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090761
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783090761
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783090761/original
ER  -