Focus on South Africa

Editor

Vivian de Klerk

| Rhodes University, Grahamstown

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027248732 (Eur) | EUR 120.00

ISBN 9781556194467 (USA) | USD 180.00

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This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English which have evolved in South Africa (including black, Indian and colored varieties) as well as the unique features of the English of South Africas southern neighbours: Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Other contributions focus on English in relation to issues such as standardisation, lexicography, education, language planning, language attitudes and interaction patterns.
The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.

[Varieties of English Around the World, G15] 1996. iv, 328 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g15

Table of Contents

Introduction Vivian de Klerk	7
I. An Historical Perspective
A History of English in South Africa Len W. Lanham	19
English in South African Society: A Preliminary Overview William Branford	35
II. Pan-ethnic Varieties
Black English in South Africa David Gough	53
Language Contact, Transmission, Shift: South African Indian English Rajend Mesthrie	79
Afrikaans English Susan Watermeyer	99
III. The Problem of Standardisation
The Standardisation Question in Black South African English Laurence Wright	149
English, the Constitution and South Africa’s Language Future Peter Titlestad	163
English and Language Planning for South Africa: the Flip Side Victor Webb	175
Lexicography for South African English L. Pienaar	191
IV. Issues in Education and Society
Issues in English Language Teaching in Primary Schools Paul Walters	211
Language Attitudes and their Implications for the Teaching of English in the Eastern Cape Barbara Bosch and Vivian de Klerk	231
Preparing Student Teachers to Teach English First and Second Language Sarah Murray and Hennie van der Mescht	251
English in Interpersonal Interaction in South Africa Keith J. Chick	269
V. The Northern Neighbours
English in Swaziland: Form and Function Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and Teresa Chisanga	285
English in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi Josef J. Schmied	301
Index	322
List of contributors	326

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