Language And Identity In South Africa
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| Author | : Russell H Kaschula |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2021-08-23 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1000421465 |
African countries and South Africa in particular, being multilingual and multicultural societies, make for exciting sociolinguistic and applied language analysis in order to tease out the complex relationship between language and identity. This book applies sociolinguistic theory, as well as critical language awareness and translanguaging with its many facets, to various communicative scenarios, both on the continent and in South Africa, in an accessible and practical way. Africa lends itself to such sociolinguistic analysis concerning language, identity and intercultural communication. This book reflects consciously on the North–South debate and the need for us to create our own ways of interpretation emanating from the South and speaking back to the North, and on issues that pertain to the South, including southern Africa. Aspects such as language and power, language planning, policy and implementation, culture, prejudice, social interaction, translanguaging, intercultural communication, education, gender and autoethnography are covered. This is a valuable resource for students studying African sociolinguistics, language and identity, and applied language studies. Anyone interested in the relationship between language and society on the African continent would also find the book easily accessible.
| Author | : Andrew Simpson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2008-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199286744 |
This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict.
| Author | : Jon Orman |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2008-08-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1402088914 |
The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
| Author | : Stephanie Rudwick |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2021-08-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0429631812 |
Grounded in ethnography, this monograph explores the ambiguity of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach which highlights how ways of speaking English constructs identities in a multilingual context. Focusing primarily on isiZulu and Afrikaans speakers, it raises critical questions around power and ideology. The study draws from literature on English as a lingua franca, raciolinguistics, and the cultural politics of English and dialogues between these fields. It challenges long-held concepts underpinning existing research from the global North by highlighting how they do not transfer and apply to identity politics of language in South Africa. It sketches out how these struggles for belonging are reflected in marginalisation and empowerment and a vast range of local, global and glocal identity trajectories. Ultimately, it offers a first lens through which global scholarship on English as a lingua franca can be decolonised in terms of disciplinary limitations, geopolitical orientations and a focus on the politics of race that characterize the use of English as a lingua franca all over the world. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, World Englishes, ELF and African studies.
| Author | : Victor N. Webb |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027218490 |
A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.
| Author | : Jacomine Nortier |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2015-03-19 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1107016983 |
This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.
| Author | : Raymond Hickey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1108425348 |
An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.
| Author | : William D. Davies |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2018-08-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108655475 |
As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use their preferred language(s). Such rights are often asserted and defended in response to their being violated. The importance of understanding these events and issues, and their relationship to individual, ethnic, and national identity, is central to research and debate in a range of fields outside of, as well as within, linguistics. This book provides a clearly written introduction for linguists and non-specialists alike, presenting basic facts about the role of language in the formation of identity and the preservation of culture. It articulates and explores categories of conflict and language rights abuses through detailed presentation of illustrative case studies, and distills from these key cross-linguistic and cross-cultural generalizations.
| Author | : Leketi Makalela |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2021-06-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1800412320 |
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
| Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
| Publisher | : New Africa Books |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN | : 9780864862808 |
