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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Indigenous African Languages"”.
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Analysing the promotion of indigenous African languages through social networks in South Africa
Languages remain a tool that allows human beings to communicate and provides foundation for a vigorous and multicultural interaction. The introduction of platforms that aid communication across different communities caters for languages to flourish. Coming second to emails as the most popular …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, …
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The impact of social media on the development and promotion of Indigenous African Languages: a case study of the Rural University
… social media on the development and promotion of indigenous African languages at a rural university. The study adopts a qualitative approach in order to attain holistic results. Data collected from social media platforms, namely; Facebook and WhatsApp from the students‟ chat groups were analysed …
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Strategies that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in schools: an exploratory case study of isiZulu
… that can be used to promote the use of indigenous African languages for teaching and learning in the General Education and Training (GET) and (Further Education and Training (FET) phases of schooling in South Africa. The motivation for the study came from the constitutional recognition …
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An investigation into the use of digital media to promote indigeneous African Languages: the case of digital terrestrial television on SABC
… play an important role in promoting marginalised languages, particularly in the broadcasting sector, where they play second fiddle to English language. The unequal status in South Africa has resulted in increased social isolation and discrimination of indigenous African languages, the erosion of …
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Development and empowerment of previously-marginalised languages: a case of African languages in South Africa
… is a multilingual country with 11 official languages and 9 of these languages are Indigenous African languages. The South African government has developed policies and created an environment for these languages to be developed. National and provincial language policies have been adopted and …
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Schools as fertile ground for the promotion of multilingualism in South Africa
This thesis reviewed the South African Constitution, the Language-in Education Policy (2004) and the National Language Policy Framework (2002), with the intention to compare certain promulgations on the issue of language use in South Africa. The constitution is unequivocal about the promotion of …
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A critical analysis of the strategies of terminology creation in the context of a multilingual Namibia: the case of ruManyo
… with the terminology development guidelines for indigenous African languages. Due to the deficiencies in African indigenous language terminologies highlighted in this study, the researcher proposes the creation of a manual for ruManyo, detailing each method for application in different domains.
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Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
… and other ideologies from the broader South African context shape and influence the ways in which the soap reconstructs multilingual spaces and the identities that exist within these spaces through language and language practices. In the literature presented in this study I explore various …
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Towards urban multilingualism: investigating the linguistic landscape of the public rail transport system in the Western Cape
… of visibility of the official and non-official languages on signage, as faced by Metrorail commuters. The findings of the study reveal that the interplay between power relations, prestige, symbolic value, identity and vitality in the linguistic landscape of Metrorail results in a somewhat …
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Multilingual Selves: Exploring Language Ideologies and Linguistic Repertoires among Young People in Cape Town
… groups also indicate that isiXhosa and other indigenous African languages are frequently erased, both discursively and practically. At times, the languages within the participants' repertoires were racialized: English is portrayed as a language for all, Standard Afrikaans is associated with …
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Language Ideologies and Decoloniality in Vernac News
… various ways, such as the specific use of indigenous African languages, and the use of urban vernaculars in formal contexts, English platforms such as the student newspaper. The study also looks at the ways in which media are used as tools for social activism as seen in the Vernac News …
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Bwana asifiwe in the USA : language and identity in East African Christian fellowships in the United States
… the sociolinguistic knowledge regarding the East African diaspora, this dissertation investigates the linguistic repertoires and language attitudes of transnational populations from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, who have established Kiswahili-language churches and Christian fellowships across the …
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African learners' perception of vernacular language in disegregated schools
… to the debate which is still going on about African languages and the need for its recognition in desegregated schools. This study reveals the historical background of the indigenous African languages in South African Education and the international trends on languages in the few countries …
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The philosophical, behavioural and academic merit of uMaskandi music
… by Western cultures and by some modern local indigenous Africans, was not a mere oversight, but a result of stigmatization of all African arts by Europeans, whose intention was to dominate the whole of Africa. They would not succeed in managing the people dictatorially without destroying the …