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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.

Beauty contests --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Beauty pageants --- Pageants, Beauty --- Contests --- Social aspects --- Rhetoric. --- Tanzania --- Ab'i︠a︡dnanai︠a︡ Rėspublika Tanzanii︠a︡ --- Henōmenē Dēmokratia tēs Tanzanias --- Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania --- Obedinena republika Tanzanii︠a︡ --- Obʺedinennai︠a︡ Respublika Tanzanii︠a︡ --- Ob'i︠e︡dnana Respublika Tanzanii︠a︡ --- Tʻan-sang-ni-ya --- Tanganyika and Zanzibar --- Tʻanjania --- Tansangniya --- Tansania --- Tanzanie --- Tanzanier --- Tanzanii︠a︡ --- Tanzanija --- Tānzāniyā --- Ujedinjena Republika Tanzanija --- United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar --- United Republic of Tanzania --- Τανζανία --- Ενωμένη Δημοκρατία της Τανζανίας --- Аб'яднаная Рэспубліка Танзанія --- Танзания --- Танзанија --- Танзанія --- Уједињена Република Танзанија --- Объединённая Республика Танзания --- Об'єднана Республіка Танзанія --- Обединена република Танзания --- تنزانيا --- タンザニア --- 坦桑尼亚 --- 탄자니아 --- Tanganyika --- Zanzibar --- Languages --- Social aspects. --- Sociology of culture --- Sociolinguistics --- East Africa. --- Gender. --- Language policy. --- Poverty. --- Tanzania.

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