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Ridge, Stanley G.M. 2004. Language planning in a rapidly changing multilingual society: The case of English in South Africa. Language Problems and Language Planning 28 (2) : 199–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English, South African

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This article presents a review and critique of language planning for English in South Africa in relation both to the simplifications of policy and the complexity of actual patterns of language use.