Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Quentin
dc.contributor.authorStroud, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-14T11:22:05Z
dc.date.available2017-06-14T11:22:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as pursuing aspirations of mobility, is part of people�s daily experience that often takes place on the margins of conventional politics. A politics of conviviality is one such form of politics of the popular that emerges in contexts of rapid change, diversity, mobility, and the negotiation and mediation of complex affiliations and attachments. The questions in focus for this paper thus pertain to how forms of talk, born out of displacement, anomie and contact in the superdiverse contexts of South Africa, allow for the articulation of life-styles and aspirations that break with the historical faultlines of social and racial oppression. We first expand upon the idea of (marginal) linguistic practices as powerful mediations of political voice and agency, an idea that can be captured in the notion of linguistic citizenship, the rhetorical foundation of a politics of conviviality. We then move on to analyze the workings of linguistic citizenship in the multilingual practices of two distinct manifestations of popular culture, namely hip hop and a performance by a stand-up comedian in Mzoli�s meat market in Gugulethu, Cape Town. The paper concludes with a general discussion on the implications for politics of multilingualism and language policy.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Science
dc.identifier.citationQuentin, E. & Stroud, C. (2013). Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality. Language Policy, 12: 289-311en_US
dc.identifier.issn1568-4555
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2991
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/0.1007/s10993-012-9265-4
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article posted online at: http://dx.doi.org/0.1007/s10993-012-9265-4
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectHip-Hopen_US
dc.subjectStand-up comedyen_US
dc.subjectConvivialityen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.titleMultilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and convivialityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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