Explaining the Ordinary Magic of Stable African Multilingualism in the Vaal Triangle Region in South Africa

Autor/in	Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan
Titel	Explaining the Ordinary Magic of Stable African Multilingualism in the Vaal Triangle Region in South Africa
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 35 (2014) 2, S.121-138 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2013.818678
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; African Languages; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Language Maintenance; Language Skill Attrition; Second Language Learning; Interviews; Sociolinguistics; Learning Motivation; Language Proficiency; Language Planning; Public Policy; Language Attitudes; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Sprachpflege; Sprachverfall; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Soziolinguistik; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachwechsel; Öffentliche Ordnung; Sprachverhalten; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The academic and public debates about language maintenance and language shift in the post-1994 South Africa distract attention from the more productive and important endeavour of explaining the nature of the multilingualism observed among users of African languages in urban contexts. An explanation for this phenomenon is offered here, based on evidence from a literature overview, data from a large-scale language repertoire survey conducted in 2010 in the Vaal Triangle region, as well as interview data collected from students who participated in the language repertoire survey and additional interviews with students who did not participate in the 2010 survey. The explanatory model is based on the sociolinguistic language mode of the society, the linguistic culture resulting from the language mode, a description of the motivations for language learning in this context and the resultant effects on the domains of language learning and proficiency aimed at in the different languages in the multilingual repertoires studied. The model provides an explanation for the widespread and stable multilingualism observed among the participants and it explains the observed gaps between South African multilingual language policies and the supposed lack of implementation lamented by language policy commentators. (As Provided).
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