Long description
This work brings together a wide range of studies of major socio-linguistic issues as they concern the languages of South Africa. Written by specialists in their fields, the contributions deal with such topics as language contact, language loss, the formation of pidgins, creoles and social dialects, and language policy and planning. It is aimed chiefly at students of linguistics and language, and will be of use and interest as well to historians, sociologists, speech therapists and anthropologists.