This book tells the story of white South African students—how they remember and enact an
Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of …

The prospect of the loss of linguistic diversity on a large scale has prompted scholars such
as Fishman and others to propose programs of intervention to ‚reverse language shift'(RLS) …

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres
which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the …

Language politics about the Afrikaans language are at the heart of struggles over
transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Opposing claims and practices over standard …

Postcolonial linguistics has shown that African languages emerged from a complex
figuration of missionary, scientific and colonial practices. The article interprets this …

Following apartheid's demise, the Afrikaans language was forced to part with the privileged
position it once held under the National Party's guardianship and has, subsequently …

The study presents a framework for investigating the powerful resources within learners'
educational biographies, which, from their own accounts, appear to influence their …

South Africa is well-known for the implementation of multilingual language policies at
various educational levels which are upheld by its Constitution. Higher education institutions …

This article begins with a critique of dominant approaches to language policy in education
that are based on the notion of “rights” and “peoples.” It makes the case for an approach that …

The study of the relationships between identity and multilingualism is more timely than ever
in view of the fact that most of the world's population is multilingual and that globalization of …