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Direct linkDeumert, Ana – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
While the concept of standardization is well-established in linguistics, destandardization is a more recent addition to linguistic terminology. Drawing on historiographic and ethnographic data from isiXhosa, one of South Africa's indigenous languages, this paper reflects on both of these concepts. Standardization is discussed as a modernist grand…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, African Languages, Ethnography, Speech Communication
