Commodification of African languages in linguistic landscapes of rural Northern Cape Province, South Africa
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DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2019-2054
Abstract: Abstract English has been portrayed in linguistic landscape literature as the definitive language of commodification. However, using linguistic landscape images from two rural communities in the Northern Cape, South Africa, this article shows how indigenous… read more here.
Keywords: south africa; languages linguistic; commodification; northern cape ... See more keywords