Introduction R. Mesthrie Part I. The Main Language Groupings: 1. South Africa - a sociolinguistic overview R. Mesthrie 2. The Khoesan languages A. Traill 3. The Bantu languages R. K. Herbert and R. Bailey 4. Afrikaans P. T. Roberge 5. South African English R. Lass 6. South African sign language D. Aarons and P. Akach 7. German Speakers in South Africa E. de Kadt 8. Indian languages in South Africa R. Mesthrie Part II. Language Contact: 9. Fanakalo: a South African pidgin R. Adendorff 10. Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of South Africa W. Branford and J. S. Claughton 11. Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town K. McCormick 12. Code-switching in South African townships S. Slabbert and R. Finlayson 13. Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa J. K. Chick 14. Women's language of respect R. Finlayson 15. The sociohistory of clicks in Southern Bantu R. K. Herbert 16. Language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community R. K. Herbert 17. Indian South African English R. Mesthrie 18. Black South African English V. de Klerk and D. Gough 19. The lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community G. L. Stone 20. An introduction to Flaaitaal K. D. P. Makhudu 21. Language and language practices in Soweto D. K. Ntshangase Part III. Language Planning, Policy and Education: 22. Language planning and language policy: past, present and future T. G. Reagan 23. Language issues in South African education S. Murray 24. Recovering multilingualism: recent language policy developments K. Heugh.
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