Language in South Africa by Rajend Mesthrie (Editor) 1ST EDITION
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ISBN: 9780521791052
Publisher : Cambridge University Press , November 18, 2002
Hardcover, 504 pages
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.