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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces - Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post-apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank - one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Background -- Chapter 1: A Society on the Move and a Township of Migrants -- Chapter 2: Language Maintenance and Translanguaging: The Impact of Migration in Wesbank -- Part 2: Multilingual Literacies -- Chaper 3: Literacy, Language and Ideologies flowing into Wesbank -- Chapter 4: Portable Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice in Wesbank -- Chapter 5: Emotion, Voice and Agency in the Journals of Wesbank Women -- Part 3: A 'Messy Linguistic Market' -- Chapter 6: The 'Messy Linguistic Market' of Wesbank |
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Chapter 7: Truncated Multilingualism: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 8: Peripheral Normativity in Language Classrooms at Wesbank High School -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Becoming a Channel for Voices from the Periphery: The Role of the Socially Responsible Sociolinguist -- Afterword: Towards Equal Multilingualisms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Literacy -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
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Literacy. |
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South Africa -- Western Cape. |
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Multilingualism -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
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Semiotics -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
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Multilingualism. |
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Semiotics. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dyers, Charlyn. Semiotics of new spaces. First edition. [Stellenbosch, South Africa] : African Sun Media, under the Sun Press imprint, 2018 9781928357988 (OCoLC)1078383586 |
| ISBN |
1928357997 (electronic book) |
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9781928357995 (electronic book) |
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9781928357988 |
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1928357989 |
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