The conceptual evolution in Linguistics implications for the study of Kaaps
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2020
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University of the Westen Cape
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zaAbstractAs an academic discipline, Linguistics - the scientific study of language - is associated with a range of concepts. Students of Linguistics are traditionally introduced to these concepts in their first year of study, and everything that follows builds on knowledge of these concepts. But language, as Blommaert (2011) notes, is the most visible sign of social change. Currently, much critical thinking is said to be philosophical outflows of a late or post-modern era, characterized by an intensification of three characteristics that have been part of human history for some time: globalization, migration and the dominant position of English, accompanied by the growth of new hybrid languages in urban spaces.
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Linguistics, Globalization, Migration
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Dyers, C. (2016). The conceptual evolution in Linguistics implications for the study of Kaaps. A journal of multilingualism from the periphery, 3(2) : 62-72