Christopher Stroud

Christopher Stroud serves as a Senior Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and holds an affiliated position as Professor in Bilingual Research at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden.

His research centers on multilingual practices and ideologies within Southern Africa's sociopolitical transformations, with five years of fieldwork examining semiotic landscapes and consumption patterns in Cape Town townships. He investigates multilingual mobile literacies and community engagement in Manenberg and Khayelitsha, developing frameworks for linguistic citizenship to address language politics and agency in marginalized communities.

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