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Why cannot the term development just be dropped altogether? Some reflections on the concept of maturation as alternative to development discourse
(AOSIS, 2016)
This contribution is aimed at some provocation by questioning the basic assumptions of current development discourse (also in the context of religion and theology). It asks for conceptual clarification and differentiation ...
Job satisfaction in a South African academic library in transition
(Elsevier, 2010)
Job satisfaction was investigated at a South
African university library undergoing
change on many fronts. The study included
31 members of staff and the data were
gathered via interviews/questionnaires,
informed by ...
Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily
journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers
in South Africa. The principal ...
Linguistic citizenship as Utopia
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
A major challenge of our time is to build a life of equity in a fragmented world of globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this context, language takes on singular importance as the foremost means whereby ...
Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...
Space/place matters
(CMDR 2017, 2017)
This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ...
Schooling Superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
(CMDR, 2015)
This study is a working paper which addresses the need for the accommodation of linguistic diversity and mixed linguistic repertoires in the classroom context, due to the rise ...
The importance of unimportant language
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In a recent paper, the Australian historian, Martyn Lyons (2013), reviews his attempts to study ‘history from below’, using what can be called grassroots writing by French and ...
‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through
which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows
how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank ...
Shades,voice and mobility: Afar pastoralist and Rift Valley com- munities (re)interpreting literacy and linguistic practices
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In this paper, narrative data from remote communities in Ethiopia reveal in intimateways how ‘linguistic citizenship’ (Stroud 2001) is claimed and exercised to resisteducational decisions which are insensitive to the rhythms ...