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The Expansion of West African Pidgin: Social and Linguistic Factors
West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.
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Developing a Model for Electronic Dictionaries
The advent of the electronic area has opened new ways to conceptualise and to organise knowledge.
Publication
Against Isolation: Multilingualism, Transnationalism and Literary Dialogue in Dutch–Afrikaans Formations. A Report with Critical Reflections on a Research Programme
T’Sjoen, Yves. 2024. Against Isolation: Multilingualism, Transnationalism and Literary Dialogue in Dutch–Afrikaans Formations. A Report with...
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“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English
Unuabonah, Foluke O. and Mampoi I. Mabena. 2024. “Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English. Mu...
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Space and temporality in family language policy: Multilingualism, linguistic repertoires and lived experiences
With increased transnational migration in recent years, children growing up with more than one language has become more and more common as people cross borders, integrate into new cultural-linguistic landscapes, form intermarriages and partnerships, and create multilingual families.
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Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English
Unuabonah, Foluke and Noloyiso Mtembu. 2023. Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English. Southern African Linguistics and Appli...
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Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations
Canagarajah, Suresh. 2012. Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Translin...
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Politics of Language in COVID-19: Multilingual Perspectives from South Africa
Rudwick, Stephanie, Zameka Sijadu and Irina Turner. 2021. Politics of Language in COVID-19: Multilingual Perspectives from South Africa. Pol...
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Towards epistemic justice: Language, identity, and relations of knowing in postcolonial schools
This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.
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Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa
Posel, Dorrit, Mark Hunter and Stephanie Rudwick. 2020. Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa....
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Rethinking South African Literature(s)
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
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Multilingual ecologies
Languages change and adapt as they exist in the minds and practices of multilinguals.
