Hibbert The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa

Politics and Discourse
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78309-582-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy, practice and discursive formations. The book analyses a range of discourses which signal how and by what processes the linguistic landscape and identities of South Africa’s inhabitants have changed in this time, finding that struggles in South African politics go hand in hand with shifts in the linguistic landscape. In a country now characterised by multilingualism, heteroglossia, polyphony and translanguaging, the author debates where the discourse practices of those born post-1994 may lead.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hibbert, Liesel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1  The Release of Nelson Mandela as the Advent of Democracy

2  Shifts in the Politico-Linguistic Landscape, Post 1994

3  Linguistic Changes in Parliament 1994-1998 – Paving the Way for Linguistic Democracy

4  Reconfigured Features of the African Oral Tradition

5  Recontextualised Residues of Rhetoric from the Previous Era

6  Historical Explanations for Literacy Backlogs in South Africa

7 Black South African English versus Other African Englishes In The 90s

8  The Rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance

9 The Debate around African Identity in South Africa

10  Expressions of Neo-Traditional Patriarchy in the Speeches of President Zuma

11 Return to Self-Censorship in Political Journalism – Echoes of the 50s And 60s

12  Localisation Initiatives

13 The Position of African Languages

14 Superdiversity and Translanguaging - A New Discursive Order?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hibbert, Liesel
Liesel Hibbert is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. Her interests include discourse studies, South African writing, linguistic ethnography, political rhetoric, stylistics, the bilingual classroom and higher education pedagogy. Her previous publications include Multilingual Universities in South Africa (Multilingual Matters, 2014), which she co-edited with Christa van der Walt.