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This is a 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 title 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.
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"[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
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A wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
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Language in South Africa South African Edition
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Cambridge University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 052153383X
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