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Language in South Africa /

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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Други автори: Mesthrie, Rajend.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112535
Подобни документи: Print version:: Language in South Africa.
Съдържание:
  • 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.