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"Harlekijns in den bonten stoet"? 'n Herbesoek aan die vroee komiese poesie in Afrikaans
(SAVN, 2013)
“Harlequins in a pied parade”? A revisit to early comic poetry in Afrikaans
Some South African newspapers and individuals considered the so-called “Patriot movement” or
First Afrikaans Language Movement’s efforts to ...
Post-modern ‘languagers’: the effects of texting by university students on three South African languages
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
The present post-modern society has witnessed a growth spurt in technology, and with the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), mobile text messaging (texting) is now seen as the norm among the ...
Code-switching: An appraisal resource in TRC testimonies
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)
This article analyses the function that code-switching plays in selected testimonies given at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which followed the country's transition to democracy in 1994. In a number of ...
Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect: evidence from Afrikaans
(De Gruyter, 2013)
Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion
event construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more
prone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages ...
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: Van altaar tot kansel
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This contribution shines a critical light on the representation of Afrikaans as a language of
the Church in external histories about the development and advancement of the language,
inclusive histories particularly. It ...