Publications

Publication details [#41425]

Chick, J. Keith and Rodrik Wade. 1997. Restandardisation in the Direction of a New English: Implications for Access and Equity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 18 (4) : 271–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language policy | language status | language use | standardization

Language as a subject

English, South African

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper tries to demonstrate the extent of the challenge of the English dominance to South Africa's language policy, by describing the current sociolinguistic order and the role played by English in it, in particular in the KwaZulu-Natal province.