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Code-switching: An appraisal resource in TRC testimonies

Bock, Zannie (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 ...
Construals of agency in the testimony of Colin de Souza

Bock, Zannie (Academia Press, 2009)

In this paper, I analyse the testimony of Colin de Souza given before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the mid-1990s.1 My aim is to explore how De Souza projects an identity of himself as 'agentive', ...
A cross-linguistic analysis of the writing of prospective first year students in Xhosa and English.

Bock, Zannie; Dadlana, Phakamani (University of Stellenbosch, 2002)

This article aims to characterize typical linguistic and discourse features of academic writing in Xhosa and English among prospective Xhosa-speaking students at the University of the Western Cape so as to account for ...
Cyber socialising: emerging genres and registers of intimacy

Bock, Zannie (Taylor & FrancisUNISA Press, 2013)

The popularity of digital media networks for socialising among the youth is well documented. Much has been written on the emerging norms of textese, the global shorthand for chatting. However, becoming a proficient user ...
Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa

Dyers, Charlyn; Williams, Meggan; Barthus, Tatum (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 ...
Factors influencing the sustainability of university centres promoting multilingualism in South Africa

Dyers, Charlyn (HESA; Unisa Press, 2004)

The main question addressed by this article is: How can multilingual language centres based at universities ensure their long term sustainability? Research was carried out at three centres in the Western Cape to find the ...
“It’s just taking our souls back”: Apartheid and race in the discourses of young South Africans

Bock, Zannie; Hunt, Sally (2014)

Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the issue of race as a primary identity marker has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand ...
'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies

Bock, Zannie (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ...
Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa

Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2008)

To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ...
"Speak out" - issues in participatory materials development

Bock, Zannie (University of Stellenbosch, 1999)

This article outlines the development of a beginner English course called 'Speak Out' for adults in Adult Basic Education and Training classes in the early 1990s. The course uses an innovative roleplay methodology which ...
Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children

Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2004)

Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities? This paper looks at the ways in which ...
Uncovering and negotiating barriers to intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square, Cape Town's 'world in miniature': an insider's perspective

Dyers, Charlyn; Wankah, Foncha John (Stellenbosch University, 2010)

Intercultural communication (ICC) is one of the most relevant fields for investigation in postcolonial Africa and post-apartheid South Africa, given the freedom of movement between African countries and the wide range of ...

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