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Aspects of the English language in South Africa - focusing on language identity and language varieties

Author : Hildegard Schnell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638615235
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of the English language in South Africa - focusing on language identity and language varieties written by Hildegard Schnell and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-03-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: English in Africa, language: English, abstract: Due to the spread of English to so many parts of the world which was triggered during the colonial era and by migration of English-speaking people, the importance of English not only as a language of commerce, science and technology but also as an international language of communication has been realized (Platt, Weber, Ho 1984: 1). In my research paper I will provide an overview of the English language in South Africa by looking at its origins concerning the historical background. Furthermore, I am going to focus on the English language in South Africa in more detail in order to point out the influence of the immigrants’ speech from England and Scotland on some phonetic features of South African English. Eventually, I am going to discuss whether the spread of English can be seen as an evidence of a “killer language” which has been used as a tool for subtle linguistic imperialism, occurring at the expense of local languages, stabilizing hierarchical structures and reinforcing existing status differentials (de Klerk 1996: 7-8). So, the main purpose of my paper is to show that the English language in South Africa before, during and after apartheid policy is one of the official languages since there is more than one local language in a multilingual nation. While English in South Africa is seen by many “as a medium of achieving and announcing independence and maturity, for many others English represent colonialism, power and elitism, and acts as a vehicle of values not always in harmony with local traditions and beliefs” (de Klerk 1996: 7). In this chapter, I will focus on the historical and social background of the English language in South Africa in regard to different language varieties. In the following, based on Roger Lass’s article “South African English”, I will, as I mentioned before, refer to the historical background of the English language in South Africa and so discuss the aspect of different language varieties that were influenced by the English language. Then, concerning L.W. Lanham’s The Standard in South African English and its Social History, I will point out in which way the English language developed there. By referring to the historical background in more detail, I will eventually focus on Josef Schmied’s English in Africa, thus stressing the strategic importance of South Africa for the British.

Aspects of the English Language in South Africa - Focusing on Language Identity and Language Varieties

Author : Hildegard Schnell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640506227
Total Pages : 37 pages
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Download or read book Aspects of the English Language in South Africa - Focusing on Language Identity and Language Varieties written by Hildegard Schnell and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: English in Africa, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Due to the spread of English to so many parts of the world which was triggered during the colonial era and by migration of English-speaking people, the importance of English not only as a language of commerce, science and technology but also as an international language of communication has been realized (Platt, Weber, Ho 1984: 1). In my research paper I will provide an overview of the English language in South Africa by looking at its origins concerning the historical background. Furthermore, I am going to focus on the English language in South Africa in more detail in order to point out the influence of the immigrants' speech from England and Scotland on some phonetic features of South African English. Eventually, I am going to discuss whether the spread of English can be seen as an evidence of a "killer language" which has been used as a tool for subtle linguistic imperialism, occurring at the expense of local languages, stabilizing hierarchical structures and reinforcing existing status differentials (de Klerk 1996: 7-8). So, the main purpose of my paper is to show that the English language in South Africa before, during and after apartheid policy is one of the official languages since there is more than one local language in a multilingual nation. While English in South Africa is seen by many "as a medium of achieving and announcing independence and maturity, for many others English represent colonialism, power and elitism, and acts as a vehicle of values not always in harmony with local traditions and beliefs" (de Klerk 1996: 7). In this chapter, I will focus on the historical and social background of the English language in South Africa in regard to different language varieties. In the following, based on Roger Lass's articl

English in Multilingual South Africa

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425348
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book English in Multilingual South Africa written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

English in South Africa

Author : Hildegard Schnell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640506294
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book English in South Africa written by Hildegard Schnell and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.3, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: Due to the spread of English to so many parts of the world which was triggered during the colonial era and by migration of English-speaking people, the importance of English not only as a language of commerce, science and technology but also as an international language of communication has been realized (Platt, Weber, Ho 1984:1). This world-wide expansion of English means that it is now one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with well over four hundred million native speakers and roughly the same number who speak it as a second language (Barber 2000:236). Consequently, many varieties of English evolved which also means that English is used for many different purposes in varying social contexts. Whereas in North America, Australia and New Zealand the native English-language speakers outnumbered the original inhabitants (Amerindians, Australian Aborigines, Maoris), the native English-speaking community in South Africa is small with a vast majority of the population speaking Afrikaans and indigenous Bantu languages such as Zulu or Xhosa. In spite of this, South African English has undergone relatively little influence from the other languages of the country due to the long period of British domination and the cultural prestige of English (237). Therefore, social variations in the English language in South Africa are extant with very little regional variation.

South Africa. Problems of identification and the role of the English language

Author : Franziska Linkner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638541886
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis South Africa. Problems of identification and the role of the English language by : Franziska Linkner

Download or read book South Africa. Problems of identification and the role of the English language written by Franziska Linkner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Geographical Varieties of English, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is to give an overview of the English language in South Africa. There will be a description of how the English language reached South Africa, which other languages were and are there and what problems exist between those languages and probably between their ethnical groups too. Furthermore the status of English in South Africa will be discussed. Who uses English? Is it used by specific social classes? In which fields of society can English be found? Is it more a mother tongue than a second language or the other way around? This work will end with a conclusion and an answer to the question if there are real identity problems and in which way the citizens try to handle the situation.

Language and Identity in South Africa

Author : Daniela Kröner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640860934
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Language and Identity in South Africa written by Daniela Kröner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: English in Africa, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Since 1996, South Africa is a country of 11 official languages. Some of them interfere more than others but each of them contributes to creating the South African English . SAE "is an established and unique dialect, with strong influences from Afrikaans and the country's many African languages."(SA info) So when all South Africans speak their lingua franca and their mothertongue they are at least bilingual if not multilingual. What I want to find out here, is whether bilingualism means obtaining several cultures in South Africa or if the use of the powerful SAE, which is also called 'killer-language', leads to a loss of cultures. English, of course, seems to be a global lingua franca and therefore it is powerful and it intends a higher education of its speakers. In South Africa, "fewer than ten per cent of people speak English at home."(Spot on) but "all South African pupils learn English, and it's the language most schools use to teach other subjects." (Spot on). That is a great chance for the pupils but problems arise when some children speak better than their teachers who learned their mothertongue or the former official language, Afrikaans, themselves.

The Politics of English in South Africa

Author : Patricia Patkovszky
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640256387
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of English in South Africa written by Patricia Patkovszky and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: The Politics of English as a Global Language, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Before one can start discussing the language policy of South Africa, it is important to stress its diversity of language and culture groups. Around 25 languages are used in South Africa by more than 44.8 million people. That is the result of the influx of various groups of people to that region over the last centuries, meaning not only the by the African themselves, but also by people from Europe (Portuguese, Dutch, French, Germans, and British) and also from the East (Malaysia, Indonesia and India). Nevertheless, the majority of South Africans, almost 80% of the population, use an African language as their home language. The language situation in South Africa hasfor a long time been, and still is, quite difficult. Here, the indigenous languages of the South African people met with the European languages of the colonists, intermixed and coexisted with the many languages that were already spoken as mother tongues or as first languages. Like in many other former colonies, the European languages had then been used by those who held political power, and who considered the African languages as inferior. Both the European (English and Afrikaans) and the African languages were therefore distinguished into two varieties of prestige and referred to as H (high) or L (low) languages. [...] However, until today, the linguistic situation in South Africa is still quite difficult. Especially the use of English is a problematic one. Therefore this paper intends to give an overview of the politics of English in South Africa. Even though this paper wants to concentrate on the current status of English in South Africa, it is necessary to make a digression into the la

Focus on South Africa

Author : Vivian de Klerk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276048
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Focus on South Africa written by Vivian de Klerk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English which have evolved in South Africa (including black, Indian and colored varieties) as well as the unique features of the English of South Africa’s southern neighbours: Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Other contributions focus on English in relation to issues such as standardisation, lexicography, education, language planning, language attitudes and interaction patterns. The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.

Language in South Africa

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521791052
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

English in Africa

Author : Josef J. Schmied
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English in Africa written by Josef J. Schmied and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the subject of English in Africa, this book examines the usage of English in education and in African literature. The range of language forms and the attitudes towards English are discussed. The author considers the influence of English on African languages.

Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond

Author : Russell H Kaschula
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000421465
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond written by Russell H Kaschula and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African countries and South Africa in particular, being multilingual and multicultural societies, make for exciting sociolinguistic and applied language analysis in order to tease out the complex relationship between language and identity. This book applies sociolinguistic theory, as well as critical language awareness and translanguaging with its many facets, to various communicative scenarios, both on the continent and in South Africa, in an accessible and practical way. Africa lends itself to such sociolinguistic analysis concerning language, identity and intercultural communication. This book reflects consciously on the North–South debate and the need for us to create our own ways of interpretation emanating from the South and speaking back to the North, and on issues that pertain to the South, including southern Africa. Aspects such as language and power, language planning, policy and implementation, culture, prejudice, social interaction, translanguaging, intercultural communication, education, gender and autoethnography are covered. This is a valuable resource for students studying African sociolinguistics, language and identity, and applied language studies. Anyone interested in the relationship between language and society on the African continent would also find the book easily accessible.

Language and Social History

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864862808
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Language and Social History written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Views on Cameroon English

Author : Martin Liboska
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638311147
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book New Views on Cameroon English written by Martin Liboska and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-10-03 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: good+, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institute for Foreign Language Philology - Anglistics/American Studies), course: Hauptseminar "English Varieties", language: English, abstract: English in West Africa is a complex field of investigation in the broader context of the “World Englishes”. For many years, researchers have focused on linguistic characteristics of the numerous varieties of English in this area and mostly subsumed them under the label “English in Africa” or “West African English” (WAE) (e.g., Spencer 1971; Todd 1984b; Kachru 1995, Schmied 1991). Only little attention has been paid to the single national varieties1 including Cameroon English (henceforth CamE), which is in fact a very interesting case for sociolinguistic analysis due to its status as a co-official language beside French in a multilingual environment. This paper aims to show that new approaches to the national West African varieties, in this case CamE, try to fill the gap of comparative research in this linguistic area. The first part of this paper shall introduce the reader to the complexity of the linguistic situation in West Africa in general. The status, function, and use of English in the anglophone West African countries will be determined in chapter 2. Then I will give an overview about the development of the two most important varieties of English spoken there, namely Pidgin English (PE) and WAE. This chapter will therefore serve as a basis of knowledge for the third chapter, which is the main part of this paper and deals with the new approach of Hans-Georg Wolf (2001) to “English in Cameroon”. By showing the results of the author’s study about the extraordinary sociolinguistic situation in Cameroon on the one hand and the lexical peculiarities of CamE on the other hand, I will support his main thesis, which classifies CamE as a distinct national variety within the linguistic region of West Africa. Finally, I will draw a conclusion and give proposals for further studies in this field of investigation.

Sociolinguistics Around the World

Author : Martin J Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135261059
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics Around the World written by Martin J Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of research trends in sociolinguistics around the world. This work focuses on traditional variationist sociolinguistics and on the areas of bi- and multilingualism together with diglossia and code-switching, language and culture, language and power and language planning.

Studies in African Varieties of English

Author : Peter Lucko
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in African Varieties of English written by Peter Lucko and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles dealing with African, in particular West African, varieties of English, including English-based Pidgins and Creole languages, some of which have received only scant attention so far.

Language Variety in the South Revisited

Author : Cynthia Bernstein
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357440
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Language Variety in the South Revisited written by Cynthia Bernstein and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the field. The volume encompasses studies of contact involving African and European languages; analysis of discourse, pragmatic, lexical, phonological, and syntactic features; and evaluations of methods of collecting and examining data. The 38 essays not only offer a wealth of information about southern language varieties but also serve as models for regional linguistic investigation.

The Standard in South African English and Its Social History

Author : Len W. Lanham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3872762109
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book The Standard in South African English and Its Social History written by Len W. Lanham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have brought about the present state. The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.