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1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- South Africa.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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South Africa. |
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South Africa -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Language and culture -- South Africa.
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Language and culture. |
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Language policy -- South Africa.
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Language policy. |
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Language planning -- South Africa.
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Language planning. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mesthrie, Rajend.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Language in South Africa. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521791057 052153383X (DLC) 2002727184 (OCoLC)51062774 |
| ISBN |
0511041160 (electronic book) |
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9780511041167 (electronic book) |
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0511046731 |
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9780511046735 |
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9780521791052 (hardback) |
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0521791057 (hardback) |
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9780511486692 (electronic book) |
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0511486693 (electronic book) |
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1280429941 |
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9781280429941 |
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052153383X (African edition) |
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9780521533836 |
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