The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of Language and Race in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367143558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str.

Stephanie Rudwick

Opis

Grounded in ethnography, this monograph explores the ambiguity of English as a lingua franca by focusing on identity politics of language and race in contemporary South Africa.

O autorze

Stephanie Rudwick is a linguistic anthropologist and interdisciplinarian in African Studies/Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic and an honorary affiliate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research focuses primarily on the sociocultural politics of language, race, ethnicity, and gender and she has published widely on these topics.