Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa

• Main Author: Orman, Jon. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Language Policy, 10
• Subjects: Education.; African Languages.; Applied linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Education and state.; Language and languages.; Regional planning.; Educational Policy.; Language Education.; Applied Linguistics.; Regional and Cultural Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8891-9

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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Key concepts in the study of ethnic and national identities
• 3. Language policy, language planning and national identity: theoretical perspectives
• 4. Language policy and identity planning in South Africa: a historical overview
• 5.Language policy, identity conflict and nation-building: the case of Afrikaans
• 6. Towards an alternative, inclusive approach to language policy and national integration for post-apartheid South Africa
• 7. Conclusion
• References
• Name index
• Subject index.