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Language Loyalty or Ethnicity? A Comparative Study of isiZulu- and Afrikaans speakersin South African Higher Education

语言忠诚度还是种族？

基本信息

批准号：
237018854
负责人：
Dr. Stephanie Rudwick, Ph.D.
金额：
--
依托单位：
Rektorat
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/237018854?language=en
关键词：
Language Loyalty Ethnicity Comparative Study

项目摘要

There is an extensive literature on the link between language and ethnicity in South Africa but no comprehensive study has yet explored this link against the background of higher education bilingualism. Drawing from post-structural and post-colonial theories of identity this project aims to fill this research paucity by examining the relationship between language and constructions of ethnicity at two research sites and in reference to two languages: 1) isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), and 2) Afrikaans at the University of Stellenbosch (SUN). This project examines whether the South African higher education sphere where the dominance of English permeates academic life is one domain where African ethnicities may be less pronounced and more malleable and contested. Through a complex and interdisciplinary methodological approach, including focus groups, tutorial recordings, individual interviews and participant observation, this study aims to interrogate language loyalty and language ideologies in relation to local constructions of ethnicity and other social identities. The status and significance of isiZulu (at UKZN) and Afrikaans (at SUN) are explored vis-à-vis English through a qualitative approach in a heterogeneous higher education environment. Although these two languages greatly differ in terms of language status, corpus development, acquisition planning history and their relative position in the two universities, both of their speakers struggle to find linguistic recognition and support next to English in the higher education system. The fact that especially Afrikaans and isiZulu-speakers have publicly asserted their ethnicities in the post-apartheid state offers fruitful ground for a comparative socio- and ethno-linguistic analysis of these two language groups. The research findings will contribute new insights to the relationship of language and ethnicity more broadly, and to African languages more specifically. The study will also carve out new perspectives on how multifaceted sociolinguistic correlations affect the higher education domain from a global perspective.

有一个广泛的文学语言和种族之间的联系在南非，但没有全面的研究尚未探讨这种联系的背景下，高等教育双语。从后结构和后殖民理论的身份，该项目旨在填补这一研究不足，通过检查语言和种族结构之间的关系，在两个研究地点，并参考两种语言：1）isiZulu在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学（UKZN），和2）南非荷兰语在斯泰伦博斯大学（SUN）。该项目探讨了南非高等教育领域的英语渗透学术生活的主导地位是否是一个域，非洲民族可能不太明显，更具可塑性和争议。通过一个复杂的和跨学科的方法，包括焦点小组，辅导录音，个人访谈和参与者观察，本研究旨在询问语言忠诚度和语言意识形态与民族和其他社会身份的地方建设。isiZulu（在UKZN）和南非荷兰语（在SUN）的地位和意义进行了探讨维斯维斯英语通过定性的方法在异构的高等教育环境。尽管这两种语言在语言地位、语料库发展、习得规划历史以及它们在两所大学中的相对地位方面存在很大差异，但它们的使用者都在努力寻求在高等教育系统中仅次于英语的语言认可和支持。事实上，特别是南非荷兰语和isiZulu扬声器已公开宣称自己的种族在后种族隔离国家提供了富有成效的基础比较社会和民族语言分析这两个语言群体。研究结果将为更广泛的语言和种族关系以及更具体的非洲语言提供新的见解。该研究还将从全球视角探讨多方面的社会语言学相关性如何影响高等教育领域。