The Development Of Afrikaans
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| Author | : Friedrich Albert Ponelis |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 648 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
The development of Afrikaans is investigated within its sociohistorical context from the beginnings of the Afrikaans speech community in the 17th century to the present. Language contact in the loose and heterogeneous early Cape society gave rise to a divergent variety of Dutch later to be named Afrikaans. There was extensive borrowing as well as creolisation due to the strong presence of foreigners who had to acquire Dutch rapidly and under adverse social conditions. Changes in the linguistic core and functions of Afrikaans are set forth in a number of chapters.
| Author | : Hans den Besten |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902725267X |
Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. This title presents a selection of Den Besten's most important papers concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2018-02-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004363394 |
This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
| Author | : Hermann Giliomee |
| Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781850657149 |
This work is a biography of the Afrikaner people by historian and journalist Herman Giliomee, one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid. Weaving together life stories and historical interpretation, he creates a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond.
| Author | : Ana Deumert |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027218575 |
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.
| 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 | : 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 | : WAM Carstens |
| Publisher | : African Sun Media |
| Total Pages | : 734 |
| Release | : 2024-10-03 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1991260520 |
Offering a contemporary exploration of the multifaceted landscape of Afrikaans linguistics, Afrikaans Linguistics: Contemporary Perspectives marks a seminal contribution to the field. This volume, for the first time, presents accessible insights into diverse linguistics subdisciplines, inviting international scholars to familiarise themselves with Afrikaans language studies. Throughout much of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Afrikaans scholars predominantly communicated in Afrikaans, resulting in a significant gap in the dissemination of knowledge about the language. The chapters in this book, written by prominent South Africans, as well as international scholars working in the field of Afrikaans, serve as a pivotal bridge, by providing essential historical context while also paying attention to the development of Afrikaans linguistics during the 20th century. The primary focus remains on illuminating 21st century research trajectories, offering a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary scholarship in Afrikaans linguistics.
| Author | : Johanita Kirsten |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2019-02-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1498577210 |
This book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as pronoun use, tenses, possession, and connectives. The changes in these areas are divided into three categories of types of change: paradigmatic changes, grammaticalization, and discursive and socio-cultural changes. The book also includes a short history of the standardization of Afrikaans and brief discussions of some relevant ideological issues. The second and final chapters include an in-depth discussion of the theory of language change and language evolution, as well as reflections on what language change is and how it proceeds. The role of language contact in language change, and language-external influences, are also considered.
| Author | : Kenneth Katzner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134532881 |
This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families
