Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.

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dc.contributor.advisorMesthrie, Rajenden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMorreira, Kirsten Leeen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-04T14:23:56Z
dc.date.available2015-01-04T14:23:56Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study is based on interviews and recorded word-lists from 44 young (under 25) black South Africans who have been educated in the former white school system, studying at the University of Cape Town. It considers their life experiences, particularly as regards their schooling. It also investigates their attitudes to language, both English and their ‘home languages’, as well as analysing their accents, and attempts to find correlations between accents and attitudes. It first provides an overview of how this demographic is represented in the literature and the media, and then examines the history of black education in the country in order to explain why a ‘white school’ background and accent have become desirable now that they are attainable. Thus it shows how black education was for decades made deliberately inferior to white, so that the ‘opening’ of schools to all races in the early 1990s meant that those black parents who could afford it sent their children to the former white schools.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMorreira, K. L. (2012). <i>Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11241en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMorreira, Kirsten Lee. <i>"Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11241en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMorreira, K. 2012. Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Morreira, Kirsten Lee AB - This study is based on interviews and recorded word-lists from 44 young (under 25) black South Africans who have been educated in the former white school system, studying at the University of Cape Town. It considers their life experiences, particularly as regards their schooling. It also investigates their attitudes to language, both English and their ‘home languages’, as well as analysing their accents, and attempts to find correlations between accents and attitudes. It first provides an overview of how this demographic is represented in the literature and the media, and then examines the history of black education in the country in order to explain why a ‘white school’ background and accent have become desirable now that they are attainable. Thus it shows how black education was for decades made deliberately inferior to white, so that the ‘opening’ of schools to all races in the early 1990s meant that those black parents who could afford it sent their children to the former white schools. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds TI - Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11241 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11241
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMorreira KL. Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11241en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLinguisticsen_ZA
dc.titleSocial change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.en_ZA
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