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An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume investigates a range of sociolinguistic factors, challenges and changes that South Africans face as a result of multilingualism and globalisation in both education and social interaction.
List of contents
Preface; Part I. A Framework for English in South Africa: 1. English in South Africa - contact and change Raymond Hickey; 2. South Africa in the linguistic modelling of world Englishes Edgar Schneider; 3. South African English, the dynamic model and the challenge of Afrikaans influence Ian Bekker; 4. The historical development of South African English: semantic features Ronel Wasserman; 5. Regionality in South African English Deon du Plessis, Ian Bekker and Raymond Hickey; 6. Does editing matter? Editorial work, endonormativity and convergence in written Englishes in South Africa Haidee Kotze; Part II. Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism: 7. Language contact in Cape Town Tessa Dowling, Kay McCormick and Charlyn Dyers; 8. Internal push, external pull: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English Alida Chevalier; 9. Youth language in South Africa: the role of English in South African Tsotsitaals Heather Brookes; 10. Econo-language planning and transformation in South Africa: from localisation to globalisation Russell Kaschula; 11. Multilingualism in South African education: a southern perspective Kathleen Heugh and Christopher Stroud; Part III. Language Interfaces: 12. Present-day Afrikaans in contact with English Bertus van Rooy; 13. Shift varieties as a typological class? A consideration of South African Indian English Raymond Hickey; 14. Language use and language shift in post-Apartheid South Africa Dorrit Posel and Jochen Zeller; 15. English prepositions in isiXhosa spaces: evidence from code-switching Silvester Ron Simango; 16. Aspects of sentence intonation in Black South African English Sabine Zerbian; 17. The development of cognitive-linguistic skills in multilingual learners: a perspective of Northern Sotho-English children Carien Wilsenach; 18. Linguistic interference in interpreting from English to South African sign language Ella Wehrmeyer; Timeline for South African history; Glossary.
Summary
An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume investigates a range of sociolinguistic factors, challenges and changes that South Africans face as a result of multilingualism and globalisation in both education and social interaction.
