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Language in South Africa / edited by Rajend Mesthrie

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Part I. The main language groupings ; South Africa: a sociolinguistic overview / R. Mesthrie

Khoesan languages / A. Traill

Bantu languages: sociohistorical perspectives / Robert K. Herbert, Richard Bailey

Afrikaans: considering origins / Paul T. Roberge

South African English / Roger Lass

South African sign language: one language or many? / Debra Aarons, Philemon Akach

German speakers in South Africa / Elizabeth De Kadt

Language change, survival, decline: Indian languages in South Africa / R. Mesthrie

Part II. Language contact ; (A) Pidginisation, borrowing, switching and intercultural contact ; Fanakalo: a pidgin in South Africa / Ralph Adendorff

Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of southern Africa: Xhosa, Afrikaans and English / William Branford, J.S. Claughton

Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town / K. McCormick

Code-switching in South African townships / S. Slabbert, R. Finlayson

Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa ; (B) Gender, language change and shift ; Women's language of respect: isihlonipho sabafazi / R. Finlayson

Sociohistory of clicks in SOuthern Bantu / Robert K. Herbert

Political economy of language shift: language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community / Robert K. Herbert

(C) New varieties of English ; From second language to first language: Indian South African English / R. Mesthrie

Black South African English / Vivian De Klerk, David Gough

(D) New urban codes ; Lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community / Gerald L. Stone

Introduction to Flaaitaal (or Tsotsitaal) / K.D.P. Makhudu

Language and language practices in Soweto / Dumisani Krushchev Ntshangase

Part III. Language planning, policy and education ; Language planning and language policy: past, present and future / T.G. Reagan

Language issues in South African education: an overview / Sarah Murray

Recovering multilingualism: recent language-policy developments / Kathleen Heugh.

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978-0-511-48669-2 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-79105-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 704506343     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511486692

EP 13150      Ähnliche Literatur

P40.45.S6

306.44/0968

LOC-SH: Language planning -- South Africa ; South Africa -- Languages ; Language and culture -- South Africa ; Language policy -- South Africa ; Sociolinguistics -- South Africa

Sociolinguistics ; South Africa ; Language and culture ; South Africa ; Language policy ; South Africa ; Language planning ; South Africa ; South Africa ; Languages

This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers a treasure trove of data and examples for linguistic and sociolinguistic study. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties, leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties; language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. It details the history of indigenous languages, the impact of European languages upon them, and of transformations to the European languages themselves. Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in language and linguistics, sociology, anthropology and social history