Peripheral normativity: Literacy and the production of locality in a South African township school

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 378-403

  Blommaert, Jan ^a,b   Muyllaert, Nathalie ^b   Huysmans, Marieke ^b   Dyers, Charlyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Globalisation; Literacy; Locality; Marginalisation; Normativity; Repertoires; South Africa; Townships; World Englishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748126171     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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