Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity by Liz Johanson Botha
This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in South Africa. While power in language learning research has traditionally focused on the powerful native speaker and the relatively disempowered learner, this book studies the inverse, where elites are the language learners. The author analyses the life histories of four white South Africans who acquired isiXhosa during the apartheid years. The book offers insights into relationships between language, power, race, identity and change in their stories and in the broader context of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, with its conflicted history and disparities. This book should appeal to researchers interested in studies of language acquisition, narrative and identity, as well as those more broadly interested in South African history, multilingualism and race studies.-
A Burnt Child
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Face-Off
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Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions
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Just Fooling Around
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Power, Mobility and Voice
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Chineses in the Diaspora
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Engaging Superdiversity
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Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy
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Becoming Diasporically Moroccan
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Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital
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Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration
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The Multilingual Citizen
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The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
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Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies
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Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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Transcultural Voices
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Exploring (Im)mobilities
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The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown
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Aspiring to be Global
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Dialogues with Ethnography
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Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
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Chronotopic Identity Work
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Salsa, Language and Transnationalism
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Fighters, Girls and Other Identities
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Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen
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The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia
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Each Man in His Darkness
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Untold Autoethnographic Stories of (In)Justice, Teaching and Scholarship
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Original Triumph TR4/4A/5/6
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Texas Heat
The stories in this book – stories of multilingualism, race, identity and power – are vividly retold, sensitively interpreted, and are framed by relevant theoryThe outcome is an immensely readable and informative work, unique in that it tells readers about the experiences of elites learning an indigenous language in a rigidly divided socio-political context. These stories certainly hit home.
-- Gary Barkhuizen, University of Auckland, New ZealandLiz Johanson Botha has taught languages since 1968 and held a faculty post at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa from 1998 to 2012. More recently, she has worked as a Research Associate to the Faculty of Education at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her interests include language learning, identity and teacher education.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783093854 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783093854 |
| Title | Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity |
| Author | Liz Johanson Botha |
| Series | Encounters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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