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The Development of Afrikaans

Author : Friedrich Albert Ponelis

Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 25,18 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN :

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The development of Afrikaans is investigated within its sociohistorical context from the beginnings of the Afrikaans speech community in the 17th century to the present. Language contact in the loose and heterogeneous early Cape society gave rise to a divergent variety of Dutch later to be named Afrikaans. There was extensive borrowing as well as creolisation due to the strong presence of foreigners who had to acquire Dutch rapidly and under adverse social conditions. Changes in the linguistic core and functions of Afrikaans are set forth in a number of chapters.



Roots of Afrikaans

Author : Hans den Besten

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 467 pages

File Size : 49,68 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 902725267X

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Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. This title presents a selection of Den Besten's most important papers concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans.



Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 21,37 MB

Release : 2018-02-27

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004363394

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This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.



Language Standardization and Language Change

Author : Ana Deumert

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 19,40 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027218575

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Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.



The Afrikaners

Author : Hermann Giliomee

Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

Page : 736 pages

File Size : 25,13 MB

Release : 2003

Category : History

ISBN : 9781850657149

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This work is a biography of the Afrikaner people by historian and journalist Herman Giliomee, one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid. Weaving together life stories and historical interpretation, he creates a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond.



English in Multilingual South Africa

Author : Raymond Hickey

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 443 pages

File Size : 47,95 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1108425348

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An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.



Language in South Africa

Author : Rajend Mesthrie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 526 pages

File Size : 11,35 MB

Release : 2002-10-17

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780521791052

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A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.



Afrikaans Linguistics

Author : WAM Carstens

Publisher : African Sun Media

Page : 734 pages

File Size : 43,15 MB

Release : 2024-10-03

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1991260520

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Offering a contemporary exploration of the multifaceted landscape of Afrikaans linguistics, Afrikaans Linguistics: Contemporary Perspectives marks a seminal contribution to the field. This volume, for the first time, presents accessible insights into diverse linguistics subdisciplines, inviting international scholars to familiarise themselves with Afrikaans language studies. Throughout much of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Afrikaans scholars predominantly communicated in Afrikaans, resulting in a significant gap in the dissemination of knowledge about the language. The chapters in this book, written by prominent South Africans, as well as international scholars working in the field of Afrikaans, serve as a pivotal bridge, by providing essential historical context while also paying attention to the development of Afrikaans linguistics during the 20th century. The primary focus remains on illuminating 21st century research trajectories, offering a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary scholarship in Afrikaans linguistics.



The Languages of the World

Author : Kenneth Katzner

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 39,44 MB

Release : 2002-09-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1134532881

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This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families



On Record

Author : Schalk van der Merwe

Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 33,43 MB

Release : 2017-07-12

Category : Music

ISBN : 1928357113

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ÿ Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to ?being Afrikaans? in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals - artists and listeners - against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.