Book contents
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Studies in English Language
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- I A Framework for English in South Africa
- II Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism
- Chapter 7 Language Contact in Cape Town
- Chapter 8 Internal Push, External Pull: The Reverse Short Front Vowel Shift in South African English
- Chapter 9 Youth Language in South Africa: The Role of English in South African Tsotsitaals
- Chapter 10 Econo-Language Planning and Transformation in South Africa: From Localisation to Globalisation
- Chapter 11 Multilingualism in South African Education: A Southern Perspective
- III Language Interfaces
- Timeline for South African History
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Multilingualism in South African Education: A Southern Perspective
from II - Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2019
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Studies in English Language
- English in Multilingual South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- I A Framework for English in South Africa
- II Sociolinguistics, Globalisation and Multilingualism
- Chapter 7 Language Contact in Cape Town
- Chapter 8 Internal Push, External Pull: The Reverse Short Front Vowel Shift in South African English
- Chapter 9 Youth Language in South Africa: The Role of English in South African Tsotsitaals
- Chapter 10 Econo-Language Planning and Transformation in South Africa: From Localisation to Globalisation
- Chapter 11 Multilingualism in South African Education: A Southern Perspective
- III Language Interfaces
- Timeline for South African History
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, we contextualise English within a decolonial perspective of multilingualism in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa. In so doing, we lay bare some of the historically invisibilised circuits of intellectual exchange flowing from the geopolitical South to the geopolitical north around multilingualism. After a short overview of the deep decolonial roots pertaining to discussions of African multilingualism, we move to a discussion of multilingual education with the circumstances of the early 1990s in which at least three views of multilingualism in education circulated. We conclude by drawing attention to two notions in particular with ‘southern’ origins – ‘functional multilingualism’ and ‘linguistic citizenship’ – that we believe contribute to serious discussions of North–South engagement on understandings of multilingualism and multilingual education.
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- English in Multilingual South AfricaThe Linguistics of Contact and Change, pp. 216 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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