Language and National Identity in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and National Identity in Africa write by Andrew Simpson. This book was released on 2008-02-07. Language and National Identity in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language and Identity in South Africa
Language and Identity in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Identity in South Africa write by Daniela Kröner. This book was released on 2011-03-14. Language and Identity in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education
Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education write by Leketi Makalela. This book was released on 2023-03-23. Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education
Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education write by Leketi Makalela. This book was released on 2022-03-21. Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa write by Jon Orman. This book was released on 2008-08-27. Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
