book notice: Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa

[Harold Schiffman]

Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Series: Language Policy , Vol. 10
Orman, Jon

2008, XII, 204 p., Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8890-2
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About this book |Table of contents

The urgent need to forge an inclusive, multi-racial, multicultural
South African national identity has been one of the most dominant
themes in post-Apartheid politics and society. With the realisation
that many of the social problems which beset contemporary South
African society are sociolinguistic in origin, the critical importance
of language policy and planning for democratic 'nation-building'
becomes evident. This book adopts a rigorous theoretical approach to
the study of language policy and national identity, both in a general
sense and with specific application to the sociolinguistic situation
in South Africa. It also includes an entire chapter devoted to the
issue of the status and role of Afrikaans in the post-apartheid era.
Employing a strictly multi-disciplinary approach, the book draws on
insights from a number of academic disciplines including
sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, sociology, social
psychology, political theory and social anthropology.

The book will be of considerable interest to a wide range of academic
theorists and students whose work is either specifically concerned
with, or touches upon, issues of language policy and national
identity, as well as language planners and policymakers, language
pedagogists and educational organisations, both within South Africa
and beyond.

Written for: Academic theorists, students of issues of language policy
and national identity, language planners, policymakers, language
pedagogists and educational organisations both within South Africa and
beyond

Springer



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