A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-histo

A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed

An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

The preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises