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Language in South Africa
Rajend Mesthrie
出版Cambridge University Press, 2002-10-17
主題Foreign Language Study / African LanguagesLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & PunctuationLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SyntaxSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN05217910579780521791052
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cqaGb_SEQHUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.