Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa

Liesel Hibbert is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. Her interests include discourse studies, South African writing, linguistic ethnography, political rhetoric, stylistics, the bilingual classroom and higher education pedagogy. Her previous publications include Multilingual Universities in South Africa (Multilingual Matters, 2014), which she co-edited with Christa van der Walt.

• Introduction1     The Release of Nelson Mandela as the Advent of Democracy2     Shifts in the Politico-Linguistic Landscape, Post 19943     Linguistic Changes in Parliament 1994-1998 – Paving the Way for Linguistic Democracy4      Reconfigured Features of the African Oral Tradition5      Recontextualised Residues of Rhetoric from the Previous Era6      Historical Explanations for Literacy Backlogs in South Africa7      Black South African English versus Other African Englishes In The 90s8     The Rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance9      The Debate around African Identity in South Africa10     Expressions of Neo-Traditional Patriarchy in the Speeches of President Zuma11    Return to Self-Censorship in Political Journalism – Echoes of the 50s And 60s12    Localisation Initiatives13    The Position of African Languages14    Superdiversity and Translanguaging - A New Discursive Order?ReferencesIndex

The linguistic landscape of post-apartheid South Africa is of a bewildering complexity. Liesel Hibbert's study admirably aims to paint a picture that does justice to the different voices and viewpoints in this constellation. Her book is essential reading not only for those wishing to learn more about the sociolinguistics of contemporary South Africa, but also for readers with a more theoretical interest in linguistic pluralism in a conflict-ridden postcolonial setting.