Publications

Publication details [#39522]

Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. 2004. Language, social history, and identity in post-apartheid South Africa: a case study of the ‘‘Colored’’ community of Wentworth. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 170 : 113–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language status | language use | multilingualism | political system

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This article investigates the linguistic mechanisms that the members of the 'Colored' community of Wentworth use to build, maintain, manage, negotiate, or renegotiate their social identities in post-apartheid South Africa.