Dyers, Charlyn, <br/><br/>
The semiotics of new spaces :  languaging and literacy practices in one South African township / 
Charlyn Dyers. 
 - First edition. 
 - Stellenbosch (South Africa) :  Sun Press,  [2018] 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Background -- Chapter 1: A Society on the Move and a Township of Migrants -- Chapter 2: Language Maintenance and Translanguaging: The Impact of Migration in Wesbank -- Part 2: Multilingual Literacies -- Chaper 3: Literacy, Language and Ideologies flowing into Wesbank -- Chapter 4: Portable Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice in Wesbank -- Chapter 5: Emotion, Voice and Agency in the Journals of Wesbank Women -- Part 3: A 'Messy Linguistic Market' -- Chapter 6: The 'Messy Linguistic Market' of Wesbank Chapter 7: Truncated Multilingualism: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 8: Peripheral Normativity in Language Classrooms at Wesbank High School -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Becoming a Channel for Voices from the Periphery: The Role of the Socially Responsible Sociolinguist -- Afterword: Towards Equal Multilingualisms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index 
<br/><br/> In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces - Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post-apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank - one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1928357997 9781928357995 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literacy--South Africa--Western Cape.<br/>Multilingualism--South Africa--Western Cape.<br/>Semiotics--South Africa--Western Cape.<br/>Multilinguisme--Afrique du Sud--Le Cap-Occidental.<br/>LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--General.<br/>Literacy.<br/>Multilingualism.<br/>Semiotics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>South Africa--Western Cape.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC158.S6