| 书目名称 | Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa | | 编辑 | Jon Orman | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Theoretically rigorous and innovative - pushes forward theoretical understanding of concepts such as national identity and language policy/planning and the way in which they interrelate.The first chap | | 丛书名称 | Language Policy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and | | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | | 关键词 | Afrika; education; identity; multi-racial; multicultural; sociolinguistic; sociology of language | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8891-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8018-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8891-9Series ISSN 1571-5361 Series E-ISSN 2452-1027 | | issn_series | 1571-5361 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |
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