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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] |