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Name:	Ana  Deumert
Institution:	University of Cape Town
State and/or Country:	Germany
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Sociolinguistics
Specialty:	Afrikaans, Namibian German, language standardization, language contact
Subject Language(s):	Afrikaans
Selected Publications:	Deumert, A. (1999): Review article: Language Planning in South Africa. LL International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136, pp.121-128. Deumert, A. (1999): Variation and Standardisation - The Case of Afrikaans. PhD dissertation, University of Cape Town. Mesthrie, R., Swann, J., Deumert, A. & Leap, W. (2000): Introducing Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Germanic Standardizations  Language Standardization and Language Change  A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics  Structure and Variation in Language Contact  Introducing Sociolinguistics  Introducing Sociolinguistics
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Germanic Standardizations
Courses Taught:	Language Planning (Honour's course, University of Cape Town) Language Planning (First/second year course, University of Cape Town) Language Change (First year course, University of Cape Town) LL The Sociolinguistics of Sign Language (First year course, University of Cape Town) LL Introduction to Statistics (Honour's level workshop, University of Cape Town)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Namibian Kiche Duits: The Making (and Decline) of a Neo-African Language ‘Every day a new shop pops up’ – South Africa's ‘New’ Chinese Diaspora and the Multilingual Transformation of Rural Towns
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