Truncated Multilingualism or Language Shift? An Examination of Language Use in Intimate Domains in a New Non-racial Working Class Township in South Africa

Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University

“…In the UWC case, the space of the Province in which the University is situated is one of broad cultural hybridity, which is amply reflected in language use. Research carried out by Dyers (2008Dyers ( , 2009) and by Deumert and Masinyana (2008) show that there is a considerable amount of mixing and merging of languages, particularly among the youth. According to Dyers (2008), there is a close identification among the Coloureds with the vernacular variety of Afrikaans (known as Kaaps) that they use every day, which McCormick (2000), Malan (1996) and others regard as a mixed code which incorporates many English loanwords.…”

“…Research carried out by Dyers (2008Dyers ( , 2009) and by Deumert and Masinyana (2008) show that there is a considerable amount of mixing and merging of languages, particularly among the youth. According to Dyers (2008), there is a close identification among the Coloureds with the vernacular variety of Afrikaans (known as Kaaps) that they use every day, which McCormick (2000), Malan (1996) and others regard as a mixed code which incorporates many English loanwords. In addition, as the region attracts speakers of isiXhosa and Afrikaans from other parts of the country, who then interact with large numbers of other language speakers, local varieties of Afrikaans https://repository.uwc.ac.za/ and isiXhosa (especially in youth speech) tend to differ from the varieties in less culturally diverse provinces.…”

Community support - the missing link in indigenous language promotion in South Africa?

“…Kapp and Bangeni (2011) have also recorded incidents where English is 'Afranised' to signal a specific township identity. Recent studies in South Africa have also recorded instances of learners expressing appreciation of their indigenous languages (e.g., Dyers, 2007;McKinney, 2007;Rudwick, 2008). Sometimes, learners may even risk derision and humiliation from their peers if they publicly assert their preference for English rather than their own language (Kapp, 2004;Kapp & Bangeni, 2011).…”

Multilingualism Remixed: Sampling, Braggadocio and the Stylisation of Local Voice

“…e.g. Hurst 2008;Mesthrie 2008;Cuvelier et al 2010;Dyers 2008;Williams and Stroud 2010). Work on these varieties demonstrates that South African youth find voice within the nooks and crannies outside of, on the periphery, and within the multilingual interstices of institutionalised panopticons of officially recognised languages.…”