Laurence Wright
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurence Wright plays a role.
Articles
2004 Language and value: Towards accepting a richer linguistic ecology for South Africa South Africa, Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. and Timothy Reagan (eds.), pp. 175–197 | Article
2002 Why English dominates the central economy: An economic perspective on ‘elite closure’ and South African language policy Language Problems and Language Planning 26:2, pp. 159–177 | Article
This paper sets out to formulate some of the economic reasons for the continuing dominance of English in the boardrooms, government forums, parastatals and laboratories of South Africa, to consider whether this situation is likely to change, and to assess the extent to which such a state of affairs… read more
1996 The Standardisation Question in Black South African English Focus on South Africa, de Klerk, Vivian (ed.), pp. 149 ff. | Article