By Jon Orman
The pressing have to forge an inclusive, multi-racial, multicultural South African nationwide id has been some of the most dominant issues in post-Apartheid politics and society. With the realisation that the various social difficulties which beset modern South African society are sociolinguistic in starting place, the severe value of language coverage and making plans for democratic ‘nation-building’ turns into glaring. This booklet adopts a rigorous theoretical method of the learn of language coverage and nationwide id, either in a common experience and with particular software to the sociolinguistic scenario in South Africa. it's also a whole bankruptcy dedicated to the problem of the prestige and function of Afrikaans within the post-apartheid period. applying a strictly multi-disciplinary strategy, the ebook attracts on insights from a couple of educational disciplines together with sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, sociology, social psychology, political thought and social anthropology.
The booklet can be of substantial curiosity to a variety of educational theorists and scholars whose paintings is both in particular desirous about, or touches upon, problems with language coverage and nationwide id, in addition to language planners and policymakers, language pedagogists and academic businesses, either inside South Africa and beyond.
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Joireman, 2003:135) The Eritrean case highlights the importance of not neglecting the ethnic dimension of nation-building, as it is invariably this aspect which lends a nationalist movement its great ability to inspire deep emotional solidarity and attachment. Now, this is not to say that all post-colonial states are likely to be as successful as Eritrea in fostering a new, united sense of ethnic identity amongst their populations, nor is it to imply any normative compulsion that they should attempt to do so.
None of this is to imply that the selection of cultural elements as ethnic boundaries is some kind of aleatoric happening. The ethnic salience of certain cultural forms is obviously dependent on the particular communities and sociohistorical contexts in question (Giles and Coupland, 1991:99). However, although one must deny any absolute, essential language-ethnic identity link, one can readily observe, and ask why it should be, that language seems to be the most frequently invoked marker of ethnic identity.
There would seem little good reason for doing so. As already mentioned in this chapter, mass membership is a characteristic of many nations in the modern era, but not of nations per se. Furthermore, nation formation is a gradual process of accumulation and expansion and so, in reality, no sharp division can be drawn between pre-modern and modern eras. What one might say is that many post-colonial societies are currently at an earlier stage of sociological modernisation than their European counterparts.