Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation

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dc.contributor.advisorStroud, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorMpendukana, Sibonile
dc.contributor.otherDept. of Linguistics, Language and Communication
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-08T10:36:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T08:53:42Z
dc.date.available2011/10/13 10:07
dc.date.available2011/10/13
dc.date.available2013-08-08T10:36:43Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T08:53:42Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractMuch language planning and policy in recent years in South Africa tends to overlook linguistic situations and practices, and focuses on notions of top-down language policy and implementation. This does not fit easily with the current multilingualism dynamics of late post-modern societies, which are increasingly characterized by a culture of consumerism and politics of aspiration. Taking its point of departure from a critical analysis of linguistic practices, in the form of visual literacies (billboards) in a township in South Africa, this thesis aims to draw forth alternative approaches that focus on the notion of sociolinguistic consumption, politics of aspiration and stylization of self, as a means of addressing the linguistic situation, and highlighting implications for language planning and multilingualism.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9891
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectPolitics of aspirationen_US
dc.subjectStylisation of selfen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic landscapeen_US
dc.subjectVisual semioticsen_US
dc.subjectTransgressive theoriesen_US
dc.titleMultilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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