南非手语的官方化——有什么好处?

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2022.2126582

Theodorus du Plessis

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摘要

摘要宪法审查委员会2017年建议修改南非宪法，将南非手语（SASL）纳入南非官方语言之一，这引发了一个问题：鉴于南非手语已经享有的特殊地位，这一举措将给聋人社区带来什么好处？从语言权利和语言规划的角度对南非的语言官方化进行了比较研究，从而回答了这个问题。1994年国家官方化对历史上被边缘化的南非土著语言以及英语和南非荷兰语的影响，以及SASL的官方化被认为是自1996年以来SASL作为南非独特少数民族语言的进步。该研究发现了历史上被边缘化的土著语言的官方化与其在不同语言领域的现状之间关系的一些异常现象，并提出了一项战略，以克服南非语言官方化的结构性限制。

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The Officialisation of South African Sign Language—What Is There to Gain?

Abstract The Constitutional Review Committee's 2017 recommendation that the South African Constitution be amended to include South African Sign Language (SASL) as one of South Africa's official languages gives rise to the question: What gains will such a step bring for the Deaf community, given the special status this language already enjoys? This question is answered by undertaking a comparative study on language officialisation in South Africa from a language rights and language planning perspective. The impact of national officialisation in 1994 on the historically marginalised indigenous South African languages alongside English and Afrikaans and the officialisation of SASL is considered in comparison to the advance of SASL as a unique minority language of South Africa since 1996. The study identifies some anomalies regarding the relation between the officialisation of the historically marginalised indigenous languages and their current status in different language domains and proposes a strategy to overcome the structural limitations regarding language officialisation in South Africa.

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.