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Publication details [#49408]

Bekker, Ian. 1999. The History of the Language Question in South Africa and Language Attitudes at UNISA. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 30 (1) : 99–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language attitude | language policy | multilingualism | university

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African, Indigenous

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the South African language question, from pre-colonial times up to the present. It aims in particular at the development of a research tool to measure the attitudes of mother tongue African language UNISA students towards UNISA's new language policy.