Sarah Slabbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 959598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Slabbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Slabbert |
| SIGNATURE | SLABBERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jam or cheese? The challenges of a national broadcaster in a multilingual context
In contrast to commercial broadcasters, national broadcasters are partly subsidised by taxpayers’ money and therefore have a mandate to serve their particular society within the context of the current political system. In democratic societies these mandates typically have to balance out the following challenges: A limited number of available television channels and radio stations Equity in terms of audience home language/language variety Audience…
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
The structure of Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho: Code switching and in-group identity in South African townships
This paper examines the structure of two varieties, Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho, that are spoken predominantly by males who live in the Black urban townships of South Africa. While many think that Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho lack predictable structure, this paper argues that all versions follow the same type of morphosyntactic constraints that structure code switching as well as playing a part in other language-contact phenomena. Data come largely from c…
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
The structure of Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho: Code switching and in-group identity in South African townships
This paper examines the structure of two varieties, Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho, that are spoken predominantly by males who live in the Black urban townships of South Africa. While many think that Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho lack predictable structure, this paper argues that all versions follow the same type of morphosyntactic constraints that structure code switching as well as playing a part in other language-contact phenomena. Data come largely from c…
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
The structure of Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho: Code switching and in-group identity in South African townships
This paper examines the structure of two varieties, Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho, that are spoken predominantly by males who live in the Black urban townships of South Africa. While many think that Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho lack predictable structure, this paper argues that all versions follow the same type of morphosyntactic constraints that structure code switching as well as playing a part in other language-contact phenomena. Data come largely from c…
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
Jam or cheese? The challenges of a national broadcaster in a multilingual context
In contrast to commercial broadcasters, national broadcasters are partly subsidised by taxpayers’ money and therefore have a mandate to serve their particular society within the context of the current political system. In democratic societies these mandates typically have to balance out the following challenges: A limited number of available television channels and radio stations Equity in terms of audience home language/language variety Audience…
Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Code-switching (2 works)