UID:
almahu_9947414838702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511486692 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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South Africa: a sociolinguistic overview /
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Khoesan languages /
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Bantu languages: sociohistorical perspectives /
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Afrikaans: considering origins /
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South African English /
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South African sign language: one language or many? /
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German speakers in South Africa /
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Language change, survival, decline: Indian languages in South Africa /
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Fanakalo: a pidgin in South Africa /
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Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of southern Africa: Xhosa, Afrikaans and English /
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Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town /
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Code-switching in South African townships /
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Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa --
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Women's language of respect: isihlonipho sabafazi /
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Sociohistory of clicks in SOuthern Bantu /
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Political economy of language shift: language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community /
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From second language to first language: Indian South African English /
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Black South African English /
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Lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community /
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Introduction to Flaaitaal (or Tsotsitaal) /
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Language and language practices in Soweto /
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Language planning and language policy: past, present and future /
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Language issues in South African education: an overview /
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Recovering multilingualism: recent language-policy developments /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521791052
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486692
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