Ethno-Linguistic Identity of the Post-Apartheid Generation
Summary
Amazing study about the "in-betweenness" of coloured substandard Afrikaans speakers, navigating between black native English speakers, the prestige language of post-apartheid South Africa, and white speakers of Afrikaans, the "language of apartheid".
(Peter Rosenberg, Europa-Universität Viadrina).
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Charts
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Topic Definition
- 1.2 Topic Delimitation
- 1.3 Justification
- 1.4 Problem Definition
- 1.5 Assumptions
- 1.6 Research Objective
- 1.7 Organization of the Text
- 2. The Afrikaans Language: A Brief History
- 2.1 Afrikaans: The First Steps of the Journey
- 2.2 The Khoisan and their Significant Role in Afrikaans History
- 2.3 Afrikaans and its Birth
- 2.4 Three Linguistic Movements of Afrikaans
- 2.5 Grammatical Aspects of Afrikaans
- 2.6 Afrikaans in the 20th Century
- 2.7 Three Varieties of Afrikaans
- 2.8 The Afrikaans Language Today
- 2.9 Pro-Afrikaans Language Organizations and Afrikaans Research
- 2.10 Standard Afrikaans
- 3. The Coloureds of Cape Town
- 3.1 Who are the coloureds?
- 3.1.1 Demographic aspects of the Coloured community
- 3.1.2 Historical perspective
- 3.1.3 Social Perspective
- 3.1.4 Linguistic perspective
- 3.1.5 Identity perspective
- 3.2 Kaaps: A Linguistic Variety
- 3.2.1 Grammatical differences between varieties of Afrikaans based on ethnicity
- 3.2.2 Youngsta CTP: Kaaps crossing borders with music
- 4. Identity, Belonging, Ethnicity and Language Attitudes: Theoretical Considerations
- 4.1 Theoretical Perspectives on the Concepts of Identity and Belonging
- 4.2 Language and Identity
- 4.3 Ethnicity
- 4.4 Language Attitudes
- 4.5 Theoretical Discussion
- 5. The Post-Apartheid Coloured Generation
- 5.1 Socio-Historical Contextualization
- 5.2 Theorizing Generation
- 5.3 The Relationship Between Mannheim’s Theory and the Present Study
- 5.4 “Born free”
- 6. Research Methodology
- 6.1 Pre-Test
- 6.1.1 Selection of participants
- 6.1.2 How the interviewees were found
- 6.1.3 The interviews
- 6.1.4 Analysis of pre-test interviews
- 6.1.4.1 Language representation and attitudes about Coloured Afrikaans
- 6.1.4.2 White Afrikaans language representation and attitudes
- 6.1.4.3 The feeling of ‘belonging’ and the Coloured community
- 6.2 Definitive Investigation
- 6.2.1 Field research in Cape Town
- 6.2.2 Location: Cape Town
- 6.2.3 Brief ethnographic accounts
- 6.2.4 Selection of participants
- 6.2.5 Questions used in the interviews
- 6.2.6 The interviews
- 6.3 Data Analysis Methodology
- 7. Data Analysis
- 7.1 Sociolinguistic Information of the Informants
- 7.2 Identity, Belonging and Language Attitudes
- 8. Final Considerations
- References
- Appendix – Consent Form
- Series Index
Contents
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
2. The Afrikaans Language: A Brief History
2.1 Afrikaans: The First Steps of the Journey
2.2 The Khoisan and their Significant Role in Afrikaans History
2.4 Three Linguistic Movements of Afrikaans
2.5 Grammatical Aspects of Afrikaans
2.6 Afrikaans in the 20th Century
2.7 Three Varieties of Afrikaans
2.8 The Afrikaans Language Today
2.9 Pro-Afrikaans Language Organizations and Afrikaans Research
3.1.1 Demographic aspects of the Coloured community
3.2 Kaaps: A Linguistic Variety
3.2.1 Grammatical differences between varieties of Afrikaans based on ethnicity
3.2.2 Youngsta CTP: Kaaps crossing borders with music
4. Identity, Belonging, Ethnicity and Language Attitudes: Theoretical Considerations
4.1 Theoretical Perspectives on the Concepts of Identity and Belonging
5. The Post-Apartheid Coloured Generation
5.1 Socio-Historical Contextualization
5.3 The Relationship Between Mannheim’s Theory and the Present Study
6.1.1 Selection of participants
6.1.2 How the interviewees were found
6.1.4 Analysis of pre-test interviews
6.1.4.1 Language representation and attitudes about Coloured Afrikaans
6.1.4.2White Afrikaans language representation and attitudes
6.1.4.3The feeling of ‘belonging’ and the Coloured community
6.2.1 Field research in Cape Town
6.2.3 Brief ethnographic accounts
6.2.4 Selection of participants
6.2.5 Questions used in the interviews
7.1 Sociolinguistic Information of the Informants
Details
- Pages
- 222
- Publication Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631913208
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631913215
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631913192
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21579
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (June)
- Keywords
- Identity Coloured Ethnicity Afrikaans Kaaps
- Published
- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 222 pp., 19 fig. col., 22 fig. b/w.
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