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Translanguaging in kasi-taal: Rethinking old language boundaries for new language planning
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This paper examines discursive language practices among Black township natives who consider kasi-taal, a hybrid urban variety from major Black townships in Johannesburg, their home language. Firstly, an analysis of 20 dialogue samples that were collected from second-year university students from five townships reveals that traditional linguistic boundaries between indigenous African languages have been re-negotiated to express expanded views of the self. Secondly, the study shows that expansion of linguistic codes is enhanced by common substrate systems in the Nguni and Sotho languages, lexical borrowings, semantic shifts and morphological derivations from Afrikaans and English as source languages. Using a translanguaging framework, I argue that kasi-taal languaging practices challenge traditional conceptualisations of language and provide a window into future possibilities for merging African languages. Implications for future research based on the study’s findings are highlighted at the end of the paper.
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- Authors
- Makalela, L.
- Affiliations
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Makalela, Leketi
- ORCID
- Makalela, Leketi
- Venue
- Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
- Publisher
- Stellenbosch University
- Published
- 2014-01-29
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 0
- Pages
- 111
- ISSN
- 1726-541X (ISSN-L)
- 2224-3380
- OpenAlex
- W1984496202
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 30.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Keywords
- translanguaging, black townships, Johannesburg, language boundaries, language planning, Nguni languages, Sotho language, lexical borrowing, semantic change, derivational morphology, Afrikaans, English language, indigenous African languages
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