“Language, class and power in post-apartheid …

Language, class and power in post - apartheid south africa Dr Neville Alexander (Project for Alternative education in south africa , University of Cape Town) Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust open dialogue event 27 October 2005, T H Barry Lecture Theatre, Iziko Museum, Cape Town SUMMARY NOTES Introductory statement In their book, Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive power , Halliday and Martin state what ought to be obvious but for the fact that most of us never think about language as an issue in our societies. They postulate that The history of humanity is not only a history of socio-economic activity. It is also a history of semiotic activity. In what follows, I want to explicate this statement in the context of post - apartheid south africa by way of analysing a few simply formulated programmatic propositions that are derived from the insights of various schools of thought operating in the discipline known as the Sociology of Language.

“Language, class and power in post-apartheid South Africa” Dr Neville Alexander (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa, University of Cape Town)

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