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Article: The language policy/language economics interface and mother-tongue education in post-apartheid South Africa.(Brief article)
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- Women and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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This article examines the issue of mother-tongue education in South Africa against the background of the interface between the country's language policy and language economics, a field of study whose focus is on the theoretical and empirical analysis of the ways in which linguistic and economic variables influence one another. The article argues that because education plays such an important role in employment and in gaining access to political power, mother tongue education--or its denial--is as important as any other aspects, political and economic planning among them, with which South African policy-makers appear to be mostly concerned. The article draws ...
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