One language, multi-layered identities: English in a society in transition, South Africa  

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Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 3 (Aug. 2007), page 263-275.
Fulltext: Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu.pdf (92.33KB)

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Studies of language and identity have traditionally focused on how individuals or groups use language to negotiate, construct, manage or project their social identities. What seems to have attracted very little attention, though, is how, in a given society, a language is assigned not one but multiple identities at various times in its social history. In this paper I examine the latter issue, with a focus on English in a society in transition, South Africa. In particular, I argue that besides its identity as a global language and as we-code and they-code in the sense of Gumperz (1982), in South Africa English carries other identities: it is an ideological we-code, a pragmatic we-code and a naturalized we-code. I describe these multiple identities of the language along with their social history in South Africa, and consider their consequences for the indigenous African languages.

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