Material ethnographies of multilingualism: Linguistic landscapes in the township of khayelitsha

Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-162

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Local Mobile Literacies   (South Africa)

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EID: 84873949392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203143179     Document Type: Chapter

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