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Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity: White Men, Black Language

by Liz Johanson Botha
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781783093854
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 119.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Study & Teaching and Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in South Africa. While power in language learning research has traditionally focused on the powerful native speaker and the relatively disempowered learner, this book studies the inverse, where elites are the language learners. The author analyses the life histories of four white South Africans who acquired isiXhosa during the apartheid years. The book offers insights into relationships between language, power, race, identity and change in their stories and in the broader context of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, with its conflicted history and disparities. This book should appeal to researchers interested in studies of language acquisition, narrative and identity, as well as those more broadly interested in South African history, multilingualism and race studies.

Botha, Liz Johanson: -

Liz Johanson Botha has taught languages since 1968 and held a faculty post at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa from 1998 to 2012. Liz now works as a Research Associate to the Faculty of Education at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her interests include language learning, identity and teacher education.

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