Publications

Publication details [#59049]

Parmegiani, Andrea. 2014. The (dis)ownership of English: language and identity construction among Zulu students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (6) : 683–694.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language attitude | language dominance | language use | university

Language as a subject

English, South African, Black | isiZulu

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Regardless of the perceived role of English and (mother tongue) isiZulu in the identity negotiation of disadvantaged black South African KwaZulu-Natal university students, there is a collective claim to English as ‘everyone's language’ and as factor in the nation-building process.