Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond
| dc.contributor.author | Mesthrie, Rajend | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-11T14:02:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-11T14:02:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-13T08:59:45Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Language shift is not a new phenomenon in South Africa: the most significant shifts in the last few centuries have been from Khoe-San languages and Malay to Afrikaans in the Western Cape's Coloured communities and from Indian languages to English among the KwaZulu-Natal Indian communities. This article will focus on the latter, documenting the fate of Indian languages over their 147-year history in South Africa. In this history issues concerning multilingualism, identity and economic integration are of particular significance. The motivation for this article is not to record details concerning the history of Indian languages in South Africa, as this has been done before.' Rather it seeks to understand how and why the rich vein of multilingualism within the community eventually yielded to a largely monolingual habitus. An implicit aim of the article is to suggest how the Indian experience in South Africa shows dilemmas significant to the larger black population today. For lack of space, this comparison will remain an implied one. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470709464713 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Mesthrie, R. (2007). Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond. <i>South African Historical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28043 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Mesthrie, Rajend "Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond." <i>South African Historical Journal</i> (2007) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28043 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mesthrie, R. (2007). Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond. South African Historical Journal, 57(1), 134-152. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Mesthrie, Rajend AB - Language shift is not a new phenomenon in South Africa: the most significant shifts in the last few centuries have been from Khoe-San languages and Malay to Afrikaans in the Western Cape's Coloured communities and from Indian languages to English among the KwaZulu-Natal Indian communities. This article will focus on the latter, documenting the fate of Indian languages over their 147-year history in South Africa. In this history issues concerning multilingualism, identity and economic integration are of particular significance. The motivation for this article is not to record details concerning the history of Indian languages in South Africa, as this has been done before.' Rather it seeks to understand how and why the rich vein of multilingualism within the community eventually yielded to a largely monolingual habitus. An implicit aim of the article is to suggest how the Indian experience in South Africa shows dilemmas significant to the larger black population today. For lack of space, this comparison will remain an implied one. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Historical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond TI - Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28043 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28043 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Mesthrie R. Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond. South African Historical Journal. 2007; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28043. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Historical Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshj20 | |
| dc.title | Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
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