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Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2013)
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one ...
Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance
(American Antrhopological Association, 2015)
In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and
familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the
present article, we explore the ...
Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis
(Equinox publishing, 2016)
This paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop
culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited
ethnographic fieldwork study of youth ...