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Language in South Africa

Language in South Africa

Mesthrie, Rajend
Mesthrie, Raj
Rajend, Mesthrie

Hardcover

Grammar & StyleLinguisticsOther African Languages

ISBN10: 0521791057
ISBN13: 9780521791052
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 17 2002
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties (leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties). It examines language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. All the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language.

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