The Social And Political History Of Southern Africas Languages
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Author | : Tomasz Kamusella |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1137015934 |
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521791052 |
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 and its eleven official languages.
Author | : Arnetha Ball |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2005-08-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134507267 |
This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers.
Author | : Richard Elphick |
Publisher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled themselves in frontier conflicts, until recently, when both defenders and opponents of apartheid draw heavily upon Christian doctrine and ritual, Christian impulses have shaped South Africa.
Author | : Mark Sanders |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0691191468 |
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
Author | : Finex Ndhlovu |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443884790 |
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa argues that language policy - whether formal or informal, micro or macro - has always been the centrepiece of identity imaginings, struggles for political emancipation, and quests for cultural affirmation and economic advancement in the colonial and postcolonial histories of African nations. This book addresses questions on the social and political history of language policies, focusing on their significance for ethnic, immigrant and social groups, as well as for various political projects in southern Africa, as they have unfolded from the late.
Author | : H. Ekkehard Wolff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108417973 |
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author | : Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1040109985 |
The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and redefining among the global South societies is an essential step towards decolonising the digital landscape and ensuring that indigenous voices and worldviews are equally infused, represented, and privileged in the process of higher-level communication, exchanging epistemic philosophies, and knowledge expressions. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to engage in the use of digital media as a sphere for resistance and knowledge transformation against the persistent colonialism of power through dominant non-indigenous languages and scientific epistemic systems. It further advocates that decolonising digital media spaces through appreciating participatory epistemologies and their languages can help promote the inclusion and empowerment of indigenous communities. It indicates that the decolonial process can also help to redress the historical and ongoing injustices that have disadvantaged many indigenous communities in the global South and contributed to their marginalisation. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and academics in communication, media studies, languages, linguistics, cultural studies, and indigenous knowledge systems in higher education institutions. It will be a valuable resource for those interested in epistemologies of the South, decoloniality, postcoloniality, indigenisation, participatory knowledge, indigenous language legacies, indigenous artificial intelligence, and digital media in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Author | : IBP, Inc. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1433062577 |
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. South Africa Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook
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.