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Applying linguistics: Developing cognitive skills through multimedia
(Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, 2003)
This paper examines the effectiveness of linguistic analysis in developing scientific thinking
skills and scientific attitudes. It reports on a project established at a South Africa university
in South Africa which engaged ...
“Modern prophets, produce a new bible”: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2008)
In this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi
Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo
in newspapers in the 1920s: through what ...
'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies
(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 ...
Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa.
(Routledge, 2001)
The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...
Construals of agency in the testimony of Colin de Souza
(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', ...
Mission as evangelism and as development? Some perspectives from the Lord's Prayer
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
This essay builds on the conference on “Mission in the 21th century: New models and strategies in a world of diversity” held in Livingstone, Zambia from 25 March to 1 April 2004. It offers some background to the tension ...
Transitivity and the narrator's role in selected TRC testimonies
(Stellenbosch University, 2006)
This paper seeks to explore how two different narrators at a hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) represent the same set of events. With the use of analytical concepts and frameworks drawn ...
A cross-linguistic analysis of the writing of prospective first year students in Xhosa and English.
(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 ...
An analysis of what has been "lost" in the interpretation and transcription process of selected TRC testimonies
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2006)
The main aim of this research is to evaluate “what has been lost” in the simultaneous interpretation and transcription processes of selected Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) testimonies. The testimonies under ...
The earth in God’s economy: Reflections on the narrative of God’s work
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
This essay is an abbreviated version of an inaugural lecture, read on 24 October
2007 at the University of the Western Cape. It investigates the role of cosmological
narratives that help people to understand where they ...