The semiotics of new spaces : languaging and literacy practices in one South African township / Charlyn Dyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyers, Charlyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--South Africa.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 151 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Sun Press, [2018]

Summary:

In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces - Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post‑apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank - one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Part 1: Background

Chapter 1: A Society on the Move and a Township of Migrants

Chapter 2: Language Maintenance and Translanguaging: The Impact of Migration in Wesbank

Part 2: Multilingual Literacies

Chaper 3: Literacy, Language and Ideologies flowing into Wesbank

Chapter 4: Portable Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice in Wesbank

Chapter 5: Emotion, Voice and Agency in the Journals of Wesbank Women

Part 3: A 'Messy Linguistic Market'

Chapter 6: The 'Messy Linguistic Market' of Wesbank

Chapter 7: Truncated Multilingualism: Theory and Practice

Chapter 8: Peripheral Normativity in Language Classrooms at Wesbank High School

Part 4: Conclusion

Chapter 9: Becoming a Channel for Voices from the Periphery: The Role of the Socially Responsible Sociolinguist

Afterword: Towards Equal Multilingualisms

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-928357-99-7