caa a22 4500 378900552 CHVBK 20180305123517.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041029xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.43 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.43 Louw P. Eric 1. University of Queensland. Political power, national identity, and language: the case of Afrikaans [Elektronische Daten] [P. Eric Louw] Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia. But by the end of the twentieth century, English had replaced Afrikaans as the dominant state language and a decline in the use of Afrikaans was in evidence, even among native Afrikaans speakers. An examination of this language's twentieth-century journey helps illustrate the relationship(s) between political power, national identity, and the growth and/or decline of languages. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence International Journal of the Sociology of Language Walter de Gruyter 2004/170(2004-10-29), 43-58 0165-2516 2004:170<43 2004 2004 ijsl https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.43 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.43 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Louw P. Eric 1. University of Queensland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of the Sociology of Language Walter de Gruyter 2004/170(2004-10-29), 43-58 0165-2516 2004:170<43 2004 2004 ijsl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter