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Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/131976 Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape Xeketwana, Nobesuthu Oostendorp, Marcelyn Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of General Linguistics. Xhosa language -- South Africa -- Western Cape -- Usage Xhosa language -- Social aspects Language maintenance Xhosa (African people) -- Languages UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the language maintenance strategies used and the ideologies constructed by a middle-class Xhosa family who lives in the Western Cape. This thesis highlights the language ideologies and attitudes held by the parents and by various stakeholders in the school environment (as reported by the children). These language ideologies are sometimes taken up and sometimes rejected by the children in the family. My findings show that a number of different strategies are used by the families. Some of these strategies can be described as translanguaging, a concept, which includes what has traditionally been called code-switching, code meshing and code mixing. In other linguistic practices within the family, boundaries between languages are policed depending on the context of use. The use of these strategies is encouraged by the family language policy. These strategies highlight the negotiation between language use and ideology that takes place to maintain isiXhosa as a heritage language. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die taalbehoud strategieë wat gebruik word en ideologieë wat gekonstrueer word deur ʼn middelklas Xhosa gesin wat in die Wes-Kaap bly. Die tesis lig die taalideologieë en houdings uit wat deur die ouers en verskeie belanghebbendes in die skoolomgewing gehou word (soos gerapporteer deur die kinders). Hierdie taalideologieë word soms aangeneem en soms verwerp deur die kinders in die gesin. My bevindinge wys dat verskeie strategieë deur die gesinne gebruik word. Sommige van hierdie strategieë kan beskryf word as transtaling, ʼn konsep, wat, wat tradisioneel as kodewisseling, kode ineenskakeling en kodevermenging beskryf is insluit. In ander taalpraktyke word grense tussen tale wel gepolisieer afhangend van die gebruikerkonteks. Die gebruik van hierdie strategieë word deur die gesinstaalbeleid aangemoedig. Die strategieë toonbeeld die onderhandeling tussen taalgebruik en ideologie wat plaasvind om isiXhosa te behou as erfenistaal. XHOSA ISISHWANKATHELO: Olu phando luphicotha iindlela, amaqhinga okugcina isiXhosa asetyenziswa lusapho olufundileyo noluhlala eNtshona Koloni. Lo mqulu uqaqambisa iingcamango ngolwimi kunye neendlela abazali nesikolo abalujonga ngayo ulwimi (njengoko abatwanana bexela). Ezi ngcamango ngolwimi zithi zamnkelwe okanye zigatywe ngabantwana kolu sapho. Iziphumo zolu phando zindibonisa ukuba usapho lusebenzisa amaqhinga ahlukeneyo. Amanye alamaqinga acaciswa ngokuba yitranslanguaging ebandakanya icode-switching, codemeshing necodemixing. Kwezinye iimeko zolwimi kolu sapho, iindonga okanye iyantlukwano phakathi kweelwimi iyagadwa ngokuxhomekeka kwimeko olusetyenziswa phantsi kwayo. Ukusebenzisa la maqhinga kuyakhuthazwa ngumgaqo-nkqubo wolwimi wolusapho. La maqhinga aqaqambisa uthethwathethwano ngendlela yokusebenzisa ulwimi kunye neengcamango ngolwimi, nalapho kuzanywa ukugcina isiXhosa njengolwimi lomgquba. Masters 2025-05-05T06:35:20Z 2025-05-05T06:35:20Z 2024-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131976 en Stellenbosch University xiii, 115 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Xhosa language -- South Africa -- Western Cape -- Usage Xhosa language -- Social aspects Language maintenance Xhosa (African people) -- Languages UCTD Xeketwana, Nobesuthu Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title | Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title_full | Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title_fullStr | Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title_short | Strategies to maintain isiXhosa : a case study of a Xhosa family living in the Western Cape |
| title_sort | strategies to maintain isixhosa a case study of a xhosa family living in the western cape |
| topic | Xhosa language -- South Africa -- Western Cape -- Usage Xhosa language -- Social aspects Language maintenance Xhosa (African people) -- Languages UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131976 |
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