Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2020.1778707" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2020.1778707</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1778707" target="_blank" >10.1080/01434632.2020.1778707</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa
Original language description
In this study, we revisit the status of English relative to the African languages in South Africa by analysing new national data on the main language spoken outside the home. These data, which derive from the General Household Surveys of 2017 and 2018, complement commonly collected data on the main language spoken within the home. Our analysis shows that only a small minority of ‘Africans’ report speaking English most often outside the home, and that the large majority speak the same African language both inside and outside the home. These findings suggest that the dominance of English must be distinguished from its prevalence, and they point to the continued vitality of African languages in the country. In the latter part of the study, we discuss various reasons for these language patterns, including the continuing salience of residential segregation by race, changes in the labour market and the accompanying rise of the African middle-class, and the significance of African languages as markers of identity and resistance to the importance of English in domains of power.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
ISSN
0143-4632
e-ISSN
1747-7557
Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
774-786
UT code for WoS article
000544794700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086911974