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Language in Cape Town's District Six

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Pol Cuvelier
Pol Cuvelier
Affiliation:
Linguistics Department, University of Antwerp, Belgium, pol.cuvelier.ua.ac.be
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Kay McCormick, Language in Cape Town's District Six. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xv + 253 pp.

Kay McCormick's book is a multifaceted analysis of language norms and language practices in the bilingual District Six of Cape Town (South Africa). District Six is probably the best-known inner city neighborhood of Cape Town: In the 1980s the eyes of the world witnessed the forced removal of many of its inhabitants and the brutal demolition of homes in yet another attempt by the apartheid government to get rid of a cosmopolitan and ethnically mixed area. The area is relatively well defined, and its language contact situation makes it an excellent site for the study of language alternation and code-switching.

Type
BOOK REVIEW
Information
Language in Society , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 482 - 485
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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