{"product_id":"language-in-south-africa-hardback-9780521791052","title":"Language in South Africa (Hardback) 9780521791052","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage in South Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRajend Mesthrie (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521791052, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 20 maps  6 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.84 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[A] very handsome book, beautifully edited, carefully proofread, and produced on thick paper in elegant fonts.\"   Christina Bratt Paulston, University of Pittsburgh, Language in Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers a treasure trove of data and examples for linguistic and sociolinguistic study. 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; language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. It details the history of indigenous languages, the impact of European languages upon them, and of transformations to the European languages themselves. Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in language and linguistics, sociology, anthropology and social history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction R. Mesthrie\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Main Language Groupings: 1. South Africa - a sociolinguistic overview R. Mesthrie\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Khoesan languages A. Traill\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Bantu languages R. K. Herbert and R. Bailey\u003cbr\u003e 4. Afrikaans P. T. Roberge\u003cbr\u003e 5. South African English R. Lass\u003cbr\u003e 6. South African sign language D. Aarons and P. Akach\u003cbr\u003e 7. German Speakers in South Africa E. de Kadt\u003cbr\u003e 8. Indian languages in South Africa R. Mesthrie\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Language Contact: 9. Fanakalo: a South African pidgin R. Adendorff\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of South Africa W. Branford and J. S. Claughton\u003cbr\u003e 11. Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town K. McCormick\u003cbr\u003e 12. Code-switching in South African townships S. Slabbert and R. Finlayson\u003cbr\u003e 13. Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa J. K. Chick\u003cbr\u003e 14. Women's language of respect R. Finlayson\u003cbr\u003e 15. The sociohistory of clicks in Southern Bantu R. K. Herbert\u003cbr\u003e 16. Language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community R. K. Herbert\u003cbr\u003e 17. Indian South African English R. Mesthrie\u003cbr\u003e 18. Black South African English V. de Klerk and D. Gough\u003cbr\u003e 19. The lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community G. L. Stone\u003cbr\u003e 20. An introduction to Flaaitaal K. D. P. Makhudu\u003cbr\u003e 21. Language and language practices in Soweto D. K. Ntshangase\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Language Planning, Policy and Education: 22. Language planning and language policy: past, present and future T. G. Reagan\u003cbr\u003e 23. Language issues in South African education S. Murray\u003cbr\u003e 24. Recovering multilingualism: recent language policy developments K. 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