Language in South Africa

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.

Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/18/2002
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780521791052

About the Author
Mesthrie, Rajend: - Rajend Mesthrie is Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Africa. He has researched and published extensively on a range of contact phenomena in South Africa.

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