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Negotiating race and belonging in a post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2014)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity has
continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid
South Africa. This paper explores how race is ...
‘Why can’t race just be a normal thing?’ Entangled discourses in the narratives of young South Africans
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2015)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity hascontinued to permeate many aspects of private and public life post-apartheid. For young people growing up in the ‘new’ South Africa, the ...
Texting literacies as social practices among older women
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)
While many studies on mobile messaging have tended to focus on the communicative
practices of the urban young, this paper considers the role of mobile messaging (also called
texting) both as a social practice as well as ...
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 ...
Cyber socialising: emerging genres and registers of intimacy
(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 ...
Multimodality, creativity and children’s meaning making: drawings, writings, imaginings
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2016)
This paper uses a case study of two children’s drawings, early writings and imaginative role play to illustrate how children use a variety of modes to make meaning in ways which are creative and beyond the design and ...
‘It’s just taking our souls back’: discourses of apartheid and race
(Routledge, 2015)
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 post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand ...
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 ...
The interaction of text and visual in specialized dictionary definitions
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2013)
Although visuals have been co-deployed with text in specialized dictionaries as far back as the European Renaissance, the interaction of both representational modalities is relatively under-researched. As a consequence, ...
Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
South Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical
displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting
to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as ...