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This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers a treasure trove of data and examples for linguistic and sociolinguistic study. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties, leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties; language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. It details the history of indigenous languages, the impact of European languages upon them, and of transformations to the European languages themselves. Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in language and linguistics, sociology, anthropology and social history.

Sociolinguistics --- Language and culture --- Language policy --- Language planning --- Language and languages --- Planned language change --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Planning --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- South Africa --- Languages. --- #KVHA:Diachronie; Engels --- #KVHA:Taal; Zuid-Afrika --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Communication policy

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This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, including L1 varieties (such as White South African or St Helena English), L2 varieties (such as Cameroon, Pakistani, or Malaysian English) as well as pidgins and creoles (such as Nigerian or Ghanaian Pidgin). The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features. The accompanying CD-ROM contains interactive maps and speech samples that supplement the printed articles and offer material and data for further research. The rich detail found in the chapters as well as the valuable tools on the CD-Rom make this survey of English Varieties a mainstay for researchers and teachers. The content of the CD-ROM is online: http://www.varieties.mouton-content.com.

English language --- Germanic languages --- Variation --- Dialects

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The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia. The book provides a historical overview of the common circumstances that gave rise to these varieties, and a detailed account of their recurrent similarities in structure, patterns of usage, vocabulary and accents. Also discussed are debates about language in education, the rise of English in China and Western Europe, and other current developments in a world of global travel and migration.

English language --- Second language acquisition --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Germanic languages --- Variation --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Dialectology --- Second language acquisition. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Colonies. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- COMMONWEALTH --- VARIATION --- PAYS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- COLONIES

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South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have three major sections:I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages.II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints.III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.

Indo-Aryan languages, Modern. --- Sociolinguistics --- Indo-Aryan languages. --- Indic languages (Indo-Aryan) --- Indo-Iranian languages --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Gaudian languages --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- South Asia --- Languages. --- Indo-Aryan languages --- Indo-Aryan languages, Modern --- Langues indo-aryennes --- Indo-aryen moderne (Groupe de langues) --- Sociolinguistique --- Asie méridionale --- Languages --- Langues --- South Asia (Language).