The chapter explores an under-researched aspect of South African higher education (HE), namely its language dynamics, from a relatively new perspective of effects of globalisation on language dynamics in South African HE. ...

There is a dearth of research on the economics of language of Africa’s official and national languages, not to mention non-official, non-national indigenous languages. The article seeks to fill this hiatus using qualitative ...

The article explores interfaces between language management and devolved governance in Kenya against the backdrop of language management theory and the roles and responsibilities of devolved governance as defined by ...

From an Africanist standpoint, the paper maps the frontiers of the emerging language management paradigm in the study and practice of politics of language from the perspectives of theory, method, discipline, and practice. ...

Drawing from Game Theory, the article conceptualises language practice as games, that is convergences of strategic interaction, and explores the implications of such a conceptualisation for sociology of translation (la ...

Mother tongue education (MTE) has been a subject of rigorous debate for more than half a century, in both industrialised and developing societies. Despite disparate views on MTE, there is an uneasy consensus on its importance ...

In 2015, south African higher education witnessed student-driven activism in the form of various #movements, beginning with the #RhodesMustFall campaign at the University of Capetown, which morphed into the national ...

The research reported in this article sought to interrogate the impact of internationalisation on university language policies with a focus on how pressures of internationalisation influence the publication practices and ...