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, and illustrate hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and ideological perspectives, the authors use contexts as diverse as social media, Bollywood films, workplaces and kindergartens to explore the ways in which English has become a part of localities and social relations in ways that are of significant sociolinguistic interest in understanding the dynamics of mobile cultures and transcultural flows.

Introduction1. Rani Rubdy and Lubna Alsagoff: The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization: Problematizing Hybridity Part I: Interrogating the Canon 2. Christina Higgins: When Scapes Collide: Reterritorializing English in East Africa 3. Rani Rubdy: Hybridity in the Linguistic Landscape: Democratizing English in India 4. Beatriz P. Lorente and T. Ruanni F. Tupas: (Un)Emancipatory Hybridity: Selling English in an Unequal World 5. Emi Otsuji and Alastair Pennycook: Unremarkable Hybridities and Metrolingual Practices 6. Ofelia García: Countering the Dual: Transglossia, Dynamic Bilingualism and Translanguaging in Education Part II: Hybridized Discourses of Identity in the Media 7. Rakesh Mohan Bhatt: Reading Gender in Indian English Newspapers: Global, Local, or Liminal? 8. Elizabeth Martin: Linguistic and Cultural Hybridity in French Web Advertising 9. Anjali Gera Roy: What's Punjabi Doing in an English Film? Bollywood's New Transnational Tribes 10. Jamie Shinhee Lee: Hybridizing Medialect and Entertaining TV: Changing Korean RealityPart III: Multilingual Diaspora and the Internet 11. Mario Saraceni: The Language of Malaysian and Indonesian Users of Social Networks: Practice vs. System12. Tope Omoniyi: Constructing Local and Global in the E-Borderland 13. Vincent B Y Ooi and Peter K W Tan: Facebook, Linguistic Identity and Hybridity in Singapore Part IV: Performing Hybrid Cultural Identities 14. Laurel D. Kamada: Contested and Celebrated Glocal Hybrid Identities of Mixed-Ethnic Girls in Japan 15. Lubna Alsagoff: Singlish and Hybridity: The Dialogic of Outer-Circle Teacher Identities 16. Corazon D. Villareal: Enacting Hybridity in the Philippine Diaspora 17. Rani Rubdy and Lubna Alsagoff: Reframing the Global-Local Dialectic and Hybridized Textual Practices