Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity - White Men, Black Language

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Liz Johanson Botha has taught languages since 1968 and held a faculty post at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa from 1998 to 2012. Liz now works as a Research Associate to the Faculty of Education at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her interests include language learning, identity and teacher education.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Liz Johanson Botha, Liz Johnson Botha
• Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781783093854
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-385-4
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 151 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Gewicht: 483 g
• Serien: Encounters; Multilingual Matters; Encounters
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule > VHS-/Kursmaterialien Sprache; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde