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Author: Hans den Besten
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 902725267X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. This title presents a selection of Den Besten's most important papers concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004363394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Author: Hermann Giliomee
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781850657149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a biography of the Afrikaner people by historian and journalist Herman Giliomee, one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid. Weaving together life stories and historical interpretation, he creates a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond.
Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-07-03
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0520219996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.
Author: Johanita Kirsten
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-02-14
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1498577210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as pronoun use, tenses, possession, and connectives. The changes in these areas are divided into three categories of types of change: paradigmatic changes, grammaticalization, and discursive and socio-cultural changes. The book also includes a short history of the standardization of Afrikaans and brief discussions of some relevant ideological issues. The second and final chapters include an in-depth discussion of the theory of language change and language evolution, as well as reflections on what language change is and how it proceeds. The role of language contact in language change, and language-external influences, are also considered.
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1108425348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.
Author: June Goodwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0684813653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.
Author: John Christoffel Kannemeyer
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Uriel Abulof
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1316368750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStanding at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
Author: Friedrich Albert Ponelis
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe development of Afrikaans is investigated within its sociohistorical context from the beginnings of the Afrikaans speech community in the 17th century to the present. Language contact in the loose and heterogeneous early Cape society gave rise to a divergent variety of Dutch later to be named Afrikaans. There was extensive borrowing as well as creolisation due to the strong presence of foreigners who had to acquire Dutch rapidly and under adverse social conditions. Changes in the linguistic core and functions of Afrikaans are set forth in a number of chapters.
