The Semiotics of New Spaces
African Sun Media; Sun Press, 2018
Online
E-Book
In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces – Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post‑apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank – one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship.
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The Semiotics of New Spaces
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Dyers, Charlyn |
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Veröffentlichung: | African Sun Media; Sun Press, 2018 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-1-928357-99-5 (print) ; 978-1-928357-98-8 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1nzfxq3 |
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