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TheLinguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa : Politics and Discourse /

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 polic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hibbert, Liesel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2016]
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Release of Nelson Mandela as the Advent of Democracy
  • 2. Shifts in the 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 1990s
  • 8. The Rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance
  • 9. The Debate on 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 1950s and 1960s
  • 12. Localisation Initiatives
  • 13. The Position of African Languages
  • 14. Superdiversity and Translanguaging: A New Discursive Order
  • References
  • Index