Language contact and ethnolinguistic identity in an Eastern Cape army camp

• Autores: Gary Barkhuizen, Vivian de Klerk
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 144, 2000, págs. 95-118
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines the ethnolinguistic consequences of change within a South African National Defence Force army camp. Since 1994, the army has become racially, and hence ethnically, integrated. This has resulted in Speakers ofthe various South African languages living and working together in the same environment. Research was conducted to investigate the consequences of this interethnolinguistic contact. A multi-method research approach revealed that although all eleven South African official languages were represented in the camp, English was the language used for general communication, instruction, and command. Army personnel were generally supportive of this policy. Furthermore, at the same time äs identifying with the social Institution of the army, their perceptions of their own ethnolinguistic identities did not seem to be negatively affected.