Freedom and Discipline Essays in Applied Linguistics from Southern Africa

Contents: Introduction. I. Language policy and planning : 1. Discourse constraints on language policy in South Africa/Stanley G M Ridge. 2. Education with multilingualism in South Africa : an overview/Peter Pluddemann. 3. Linguistic, social and cultural perspectives on sign language in South Africa/Claire Penn and Timothy Reagan. II. Language and identity : 4. Ethnic identity in discursive practices: The term ‘Indian’ in the corpus of South African English/Robert De Beaugrande. 5. Male workers’ English in the Western Cape: interlanguage, code switching and pidginisation/R Mesthrie. 6. ‘What am I doing to my child?’ Moving to English schools/Vivian De Klerk. 7. Aspects of Swazi English accent/Arua E Arua. 8. Kwaito-speak: a language variety created by the youth for the youth/Sizwe Satyo. 9. Are Africans susceptible to dementia: preliminary reflections on linguistic behaviour in aged care and the discourse in Xhosa of a dementing white bilingual/Sinfree Makoni and Pinky Makoe. 10. Framing claims: an examination of one feature of undergraduate writing in Zimbabwe/Alison Love. 11. Pragmatic competence: a longitudinal observation/L A Kasanga. 12. Reflecting on a programme in action: towards theory-based evaluation/Elaine Ridge. IV. The history and scope of the discipline in South Africa : 13. Why "Applied Language Studies" and not "Applied Linguistics"? aspects of the evolution of Applied Language Studies in South Africa since the 1960s and into the new millennium-a personal view/Douglas Young.

"Southern African applied linguistics is practised in a dynamic, multicultural context. Political liberation has made rigorous research necessary to realise ideals. Freedom has called for discipline. This book gathers papers which show the range and vitality of work from the region and analyse the different voices and intellectual temperaments of applied linguistic research traditions current in it. Apart from the inherent interest of the essays, their rootedness in the local may paradoxically make them resonate in new and suggestive ways in wider contexts beyond Africa."