Publications

Publication details [#29134]

Barkhuizen, Gary P. and Vivian De Klerk. 2002. The role of Xhosa in a South African prison: ´The situation is leading you´. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23 (3) : 160–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language policy | language status | language use | multilingualism | prison

Language as a subject

English | Xhosa

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with the use of Xhosa an English as the languages of respectively informal and official interaction in a prison in Grahamstown (South Africa) and with residents' knowledge of South-African language policies promoting African languages and multilingualism.