Towards a material ethnography of linguistic landscape: Multilingualism, mobility and space in a South African township

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-386

  Stroud, Christopher ^a,b   Mpendukana, Sibonile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Linguistic landscape; Multilingualism; Politics of aspiration; Space and mobility; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67049117610     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2009.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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