Code Switching Process in Reconciliation

This book seeks to explore the importance of code-switching strategies used by Nadine Gordimer in the novel No Time like the Present in terms of the linguistic and cultural diversity. In addition it explores the issue of language which is a central question in the rebuilding of South African Nation since the new South African Constitution embraces multilingualism throughout the promotion and development of indigenous languages. The aim of the paper is also to investigate how code-switching strategies are employed by the postcolonial writer Nadine Gordimer to foreground the necessity of reconciliation between South Africans. Gordimer makes use of this style in novels in order to show how these devices contribute to the stylistic effects of the post-Apartheid South African literature in terms of language use.