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Title:Post-colonial twilight: English as a failed 'lingua franca'
Author:Balfour, Robert
Year:2002
Periodical:The English Academy Review
Volume:19
Pages:20-32
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:language policy
English language
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/10131750285310041
Abstract:The author contends that, far from supporting English as a 'lingua franca', the key arguments made for both Black South African English (BSAfE), and Standard South African English (SSAE), potentially misrepresent each other and obscure concomitant debates which must surely arise for standardized indigenous languages as well. He explores the implications of arguments presented by N. Alexander (1989, 2001), J. Makalela (1998) and others for the use of BSAfE as a 'lingua franca' in South Africa. He then contrasts these arguments with those made for the continued use of SSAE as presented by L. Wright (1995) and L.W. Lanham et al. (1995). Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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