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Language in South Africa / edited by Rajend Mesthrie.

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A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Mesthrie, Rajend
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > South Africa.
South Africa > Languages.
Language and culture > South Africa.
Language policy > South Africa.
Language planning > South Africa.
Language and culture.
Language and languages.
Language planning.
Language policy.
Sociolinguistics.
South Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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