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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Dyers, Charlyn; Wankah, Foncha John – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This paper is based on research done on intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square in the heart of Cape Town, South Africa. The Square is well known as a market for informal traders (mainly from other parts of Africa), local people and tourists from all over the world. Using originally collected discursive evidence from market traders, the…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Intercultural Communication, Ideology, Discourse Analysis
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Dyers, Charlyn – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
The ongoing migration from the rural areas of South Africa to its cities is exerting strong influences on the language practices of the young, as they learn to cope with new living spaces where languages and cultures converge. Drawing on the theories of transcultural and transidiomatic practices (Jacquemet, 2005; Pennycook, 2007), this article…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration