36.3267, FYI: New 'Conversation on Language Policy in Africa' Webinar

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3267. Mon Oct 27 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.3267, FYI: New 'Conversation on Language Policy in Africa' Webinar

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Date: 27-Oct-2025
From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: New 'Conversation on Language Policy in Africa' Webinar


The second webinar of the 'Conversations on Language Policy in Africa'
series will take place on Friday, 7 November 2025, at 4 pm CET. The
format will be a short talk, followed by the opportunity for dialogue
– approximately one hour in total.
The webinar will be hosted by Initiative Afrique of the University of
Bern (Switzerland) and will use MS Teams. Prior registration is
required.
Speaker is Menzi Thango of Wits - University of the Witwatersrand. He
will speak on Workplace Communication - the use of African languages
by banks operating in the Free State Province, South Africa.
The issue of language of communication in the workplace plays a
pivotal role, particularly in multilingual settings. The issue of
language of communication in the multilingual bank settings of the
Free State Province is a central one in this presentation. The main
argument of the presentation is that English continues to be the main
language of communication and business, especially pertaining to the
written communication in banks, while African languages such as
Sesotho, Setswana, isiZulu and isiXhosa are excluded.
More information about the webinar series is at
https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/news_and_events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Southern Sotho (sot)
                     Xhosa (xho)




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