Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Contents i
2. Preface vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Release of Nelson Mandela as the Advent of Democracy 12
5. 2. Shifts in the Linguistic Landscape, post 1994 20
6. 3. Linguistic Changes in Parliament 1994–1998: Paving the Way for Linguistic Democracy 29
7. 4. Reconfigured Features of the African Oral Tradition 44
8. 5. Recontextualised Residues of Rhetoric from the Previous Era 59
9. 6. Historical Explanations for Literacy Backlogs in South Africa 67
10. 7. Black South African English Versus Other African Englishes in the 1990s 75
11. 8. The Rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance 85
12. 9. The Debate on African Identity in South Africa 90
13. 10. Expressions of Neo-Traditional Patriarchy in the Speeches of President Zuma 104
14. 11. Return to Self-Censorship in Political Journalism: Echoes of the 1950s and 1960s 120
15. 12. Localisation Initiatives 132
16. 13. The Position of African Languages 140
17. 14. Superdiversity and Translanguaging: A New Discursive Order 148
18. References 157
19. Index 166