Standard And Non Standard African Language Varieties In The Urban Areas Of South Africa

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Standard and Non-standard African Language Varieties in the Urban Areas of South Africa

Author : Karen Calteaux
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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Standard and Non-standard African Language Varieties in the Urban Areas of South Africa written by Karen Calteaux and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides data on standard and non-standard African language varieties occurring in urban areas of South Africa, drawn from nine smaller reports. It illustrates the language use patterns in black urban communities and describes the language varieties spoken in them. It was found that the impact of non-standard varieties on the use of standard African languages is reflected clearly in their grammatical systems. Main sources of influence are the European languages of daily contact. Grammatical adaptation of the standard African languages, in the form of lexical adoption from foreign languages, is a major focus of the report. Implications of the study's results for African language planning and for education are discussed. Chapters address these topics: research origins, background, and methodology; theoretical bases in research on sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language change, linguistic borrowing, language variation, and language use within a speech community; language use patterns in black urban communities, both general and specific; the nature of phonological change; the nature of morphological change; syntactic change; semantic shift; language interference in the schools; language planning in this context; and implications for South African education policy and practice. Contains 124 references. (MSE)

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.

The Standard in South African English and its Social History

Author : Len W. Lanham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286728
Total Pages : 98 pages
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Book Synopsis The Standard in South African English and its Social History by : Len W. Lanham

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 98 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.

Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities

Author : Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729075X
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Book Synopsis Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities by : Miriam Meyerhoff

Download or read book Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities written by Miriam Meyerhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Afrikatale

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Resources in Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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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.

Language in South Africa

Author : Victor N. Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027218490
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor N. Webb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.

Language in South Africa

Author : Victor Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027297630
Total Pages : 387 pages
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Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor Webb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting democratic values, equity and non-discrimination, human rights, national unity and the development of all the country’s communities. The question asked in LiSA is how language planning can contribute towards the attainment of these national ideals. Set against the language political realities of the country — the a-symmetric power relations between the languages; the striking differences in the structural; functional and symbolic adaptation of the official languages; and the many language-related problems in the country — it debates the role of language in state administration, national integration, educational development and economic development. The volume concludes with a discussion of language development and language management.

South African journal of African languages

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Total Pages : 554 pages
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Interactions Across Englishes

Author : Christiane Meierkord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192285
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Download or read book Interactions Across Englishes written by Christiane Meierkord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global spread of English has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another.

The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa

Author : Liesel Hibbert
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783095822
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Liesel Hibbert and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy, practice and discursive formations. The book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and by what processes the linguistic landscape and identities of South Africa’s inhabitants have changed in this time, finding that struggles in South African politics go hand in hand with shifts in the linguistic landscape. In a country now characterised by multilingualism, heteroglossia, polyphony and translanguaging, the author debates where the discourse practices of those born post-1994 may lead.

The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137015934
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Book Synopsis The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages by : Tomasz Kamusella

Download or read book The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages written by Tomasz Kamusella and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107171202
Total Pages : 229 pages
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Book Synopsis Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa by : Rajend Mesthrie

Download or read book Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

New Language Bearings in Africa

Author : Margaret Jepkirui Muthwii
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853597275
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book New Language Bearings in Africa written by Margaret Jepkirui Muthwii and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of papers in this special volume discuss issues and challenges that are pertinent in understanding present-day moves and tendencies in the use of languages in the African contexts. The volume's major asset lies in the diversity of topics, the range of languages and the African geographical areas covered. Not only do the contributors come from different nations in Africa but also many of them are established scholars who interact with and interpret the unique situations in their nations on a daily basis.

Language Standardization in Africa

Author : Norbert Cyffer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Language Standardization in Africa written by Norbert Cyffer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beiträge in Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch

Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and in Dialectal Contexts

Author : Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030800725
Total Pages : 501 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and in Dialectal Contexts written by Elinor Saiegh-Haddad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first published collection of papers on the impact of diglossia and dialectal variations on language and literacy acquisition, impairment, and education. The authors are pioneering in this field and are leading researchers with substantial experience in conducting research in this area. A wide range of areas and languages are covered, including the US, South Africa, Israel, and various European countries. The chapters present novel data and insights regarding the role of dialectal variations on language and literacy, from a wide range of countries and perspectives. These insights have significant theoretical and practical implications. A majority of literacy learners worldwide are taught to read and write in a language variety or a dialect that is not the same as their spoken language. Not only is this the global norm, but it is probably also the greatest obstacle to literacy learning. This volume is the first published collection of papers on the role of dialect in language and literacy acquisition, impairment, and education in a variety of languages and situations across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Africa, and Asia.The authors are pioneers in this field.