English in Multilingual South Africa (eBook, PDF)

The Linguistics of Contact and Change
Redaktion: Hickey, Raymond

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Produktbeschreibung

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions and used by many more in daily life. This situation provides a plethora of contact scenarios, all of which have resulted in language variation and change, and which forms the main focus of this insightful volume. Written by a team of leading scholars, it investigates a range of sociolinguistic factors and the challenges that South Africans face as a result of multilingualism and globalisation in both education and social interaction. The historical background to English in South Africa provides a framework within which the interfaces with other languages spoken in the country are scrutinised, whilst highlighting processes of contact, bilingualism, code-switching and language shift.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108580977
• Artikelnr.: 66178464

Inhaltsangabe

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.