Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children
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2004
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Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Ten years into South Africa�s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as
part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities?
This paper looks at the ways in which two groups of fourteen-year-old Xhosa-speaking and
mixed-race �Coloured� South African secondary school learners in a new housing area near
Cape Town negotiate their identities through language in a context of rapid social change. It
analyses their beliefs and attitudes about the languages and speech communities to which
they are exposed.
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Socio-cultural identities, South Africa, Democracy, School children
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Dyers, C. (2004). Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children. Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning, 20(1):22-35