A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to the African languages of southern Africa

Kaschula, Russell H; Mokapela, Sebolelo; Nkomo, Dion; Nosilela, Bulelwa

Title: A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to the African languages of southern Africa
Creator: Kaschula, Russell H
Creator: Mokapela, Sebolelo
Creator: Nkomo, Dion
Creator: Nosilela, Bulelwa
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2023
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468042
Identifier: vital:77002
Identifier: ISBN 9781003095125
Identifier: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003095125-22/socio-political-historical-perspective-linguistic-prescriptivism-relation-african-languages-southern-africa-russell-kaschula-sebolelo-mokapela-dion-nkomo-bulelwa-nosilela
Description: Major languages in southern Africa evolved from oral to the written mode within particular socio-cultural and political milieu from the eighteenth century. In the postcolonial period, some African countries established regulatory bodies, while others maintained those established during the colonial period to oversee the development and use of African languages. The quest for uniformity manifested itself in a prescriptive approach to the orthographies and grammars of southern African languages. This chapter looks at how prescriptivism emerged from those socio-political and historical processes to become a feature in the development and use of African languages in southern Africa.
Format: 17 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Relation: Kaschula, R.H., Mokapela, S., Nkomo, D. and Nosilela, B., 2023. A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to the African languages of southern Africa. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (pp. 321-337). Routledge
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