Language And Identity In South Africa

Author : Daniela Kröner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640860937

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Language and Identity in South Africa by Daniela Kröner Pdf

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.

Author : Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030859619

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Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education by Leketi Makalela Pdf

This book examines the intersections between education, identity formation, and language in post-apartheid South Africa with specific attention to higher education. It does so against the backdrop of the core argument that the sector plays a critical role in shaping, (re)producing and perpetuating sectoral, class, sub-national and national identities, which in turn, in the peculiar South African setting, are almost invariably analogous with the historical fault lines determined and dictated by language as a marker of ethnic and racial identity. The chapters in the book grapple with the nuances related to these intersections in the understanding that higher education language policies – overt and/or covert – largely structure institutional cultures, or what has been described as curriculum in higher education institutions. Together, the chapters examine the roles played by higher education, by language policies, and by the intersections of these policies and ethnolinguistic identities in either constructing and perpetuating, or deconstructing ethnolinguistic identities upon which the sector was founded. The introductory chapter lays out the background to the entire book with an emphasis on the policy and practice perspectives on the intersections. The middle chapters describe the so-called “White Universities”, “Black Universities” and “Middle-Man Minorities Universities”. The final chapter maps out future directions of the discourses on language and identity formation in South Africa’s higher education.

Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199286744

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Language and National Identity in Africa by Andrew Simpson Pdf

This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict.

Author : Russell H Kaschula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000421460

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Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond by Russell H Kaschula Pdf

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.

Author : Hildegard Schnell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638615235

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Aspects of the English language in South Africa - focusing on language identity and language varieties by Hildegard Schnell Pdf

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.

Author : Jon Orman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402088919

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Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Jon Orman Pdf

The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.

Author : Adele Seeff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319781488

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South Africa's Shakespeare and the Drama of Language and Identity by Adele Seeff Pdf

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare’s presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity. A case study approach demonstrates how Shakespeare’s texts are available for ideologically driven linguistic programs. Seeff introduces the African Theatre, Cape Town, in 1801, multilingual site of the first recorded performance of a Shakespeare play in Southern Africa where rival, amateur theatrical groups performed in turn, in English, Dutch, German, and French. Chapter 3 offers three vectors of a broadening Shakespeare diaspora in English, Afrikaans, and Setswana in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 4 analyses André Brink’s Kinkels innie Kabel, a transposition of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors into Kaaps, as a radical critique of apartheid’s obsession with linguistic and ethnic purity. Chapter 5 investigates John Kani’s performance of Othello as a Xhosa warrior chief with access to the ancient tradition of Xhosa storytellers. Shakespeare in Mzansi, a televisual miniseries uses black actors, vernacular languages, and local settings to Africanize Macbeth and reclaim a cross-cultural, multilingualism. An Afterword assesses the future of Shakespeare in a post-rainbow, decolonizing South Africa. Global Sha Any reader interested in Shakespeare Studies, global Shakespeare, Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare and appropriation, Shakespeare and language, Literacy Studies, race, and South African cultural history will be drawn to this book.

Author : Franziska Linkner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638541886

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South Africa. Problems of identification and the role of the English language by Franziska Linkner Pdf

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.

Author : Liz Johanson Botha
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783093854

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Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity by Liz Johanson Botha Pdf

This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people. Using the stories of white South Africans who acquired isiXhosa during the apartheid years, this book offers insights into relationships between language, power, race, identity and change.

Author : Victor Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297631

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Language in South Africa by Victor Webb Pdf

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.

Author : Rosalie Finlayson,Sarah Slabbert
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015062842987

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Language and Identities in a Postcolony by Rosalie Finlayson,Sarah Slabbert Pdf

The book's chapters address issues that are important not only in Southern Africa but also in other parts of the world. Although the focus and much of the data on language and identity are Southern African, most of the writers deal with their material in such a way as to locate it within theoretical debates and/or illuminate it with insights from related research in other parts of the world. The collection belongs to the constructivist paradigm and is one of the few works within this line of research. The issue of language and identity examines how language can become symbolic of the individual or group's identity. This aspect of language is explored from a variety of angles exhibiting different methods of investigation, and this - smorgasbord of methods provides ample inspiration for further studies in the field."

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521791057

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Language in South Africa by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

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.

Author : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107022096

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Language Conflict and Language Rights by William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky Pdf

An overview of language rights issues and language conflicts with detailed examination of many cases past and present around the world.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 0864862806

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Language and Social History by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

Author : Victor N. Webb,Theo Du Plessis
Publisher : Van Schaik Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131816683

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The Politics of Language in South Africa by Victor N. Webb,Theo Du Plessis Pdf

The politics of language in South Africa is a selected collection of essays that contains the proceedings of a colloquium organised by Vic Webb, the guest editor.