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Publication details [#58514]

Hornberger, Nancy H. 2014. On not taking language inequality for granted: Hymesian traces in ethnographic monitoring of South Africa’s multilingual language policy. Multilingua 33 (5,6) : 623–645.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language of instruction | language policy | linguistic human rights | monitoring | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English | Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study discusses two scholar-backed initiatives at Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal universities to effectively execute South Africa’s multilingual language policy fostering institutional (medium of instruction) status for nine African languages, English, and Afrikaans, aimed at settling enduring social injustices. It asserts that monitoring in education (cfr. Hymes, 1980) constitutes one way of contesting language inequity.