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dc.contributor.authorAntia, Bassey E.
dc.contributor.authorvan der Merwe, Chanel
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T09:19:10Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T09:19:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationAntia, B.E. & van der Merwe (2018). Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university. Language Policy. 1 – 23.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1573-1863
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-018-9493-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4688
dc.description.abstractAs part of a broader student campaign for ‘free decolonized education’, protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, and revealed what is possibly an internal contradiction of the campaign. The discourse prior to the protests (e.g. “excellent language policies but problematic implementation”), during the protests (e.g. silence over the role of indigenous African languages in the “Afrikaans must fall” versus “Afrikaans must stay” contestations), and after the protests (e.g. English becoming a primary medium in some institutional policy reviews) warrant attention to critical literacy in language policy scholarship. Based on a theoretical account of speaking with a forked tongue, this article analyzes the language policy text of one South African university. The analysis suggests, simultaneously, why similar policies have tended to be positively appraised, why students’ calls for policy revisions were justified, but why the changes clamoured for arguably amount to complicity in self-harm.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandsen_US
dc.subjectDecolonising educationen_US
dc.subjectLanguage policyen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectTactical polyvalenceen_US
dc.subjectSystemic functional linguisticsen_US
dc.titleSpeaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African universityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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