Publications

Publication details [#53318]

Deumert, Ana. 2010. Tracking the demographics of (urban) language shift - an analysis of South African census data. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (1) : 13–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | gender | language shift | social class | urban community

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English | isiXhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Using census data and focusing on the metropolitan city of Cape Town, with its three-language profile of English, Afrikaans, and isiXhosa, this study explores how the social variables of social class, age and gender affect the structuring processes of past and present (urban) language shift.