The Sociolinguistics of South African Television
Author: Kealeboga Aiseng
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3031549155
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Author: Kealeboga Aiseng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3031549155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: New Africa Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780864862808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lutendo Nendauni
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2016-12-07
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 3668358907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Film Science, University of Venda, course: Media studies, language: English, abstract: This paper intends to examine how culture and race are represented in South African television industry; the focus is laid on South Africa’s oldest and most watched soap operas: 'Generations' and 'Muvhango'. Culture and race are some of the most crucial terminologies in South African history and because of this reason they are defined and deeply explained in this paper. The paper also defines representation from a philosophical point of view, moving on to a media point of view, which then leads to the critical detailed analysis of how culture and race are represented in South African television paying special attention to two of the most popular soap operas.
Author: Ana Deumert
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2023-07-07
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1788926587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters address issues ranging from author positionality to the central theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’ sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is our future and how we imagine it.
Author: Olorunnisola, Anthony A.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2013-06-30
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1466641983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa has always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats, activists, and others who work towards political transformations. New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective, this book also presents case studies and national experiences for media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.
Author: Charlyn Dyers
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2018-11-30
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1928357997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces - Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post'apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank - one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and cross-linguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship.
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1108425348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1107171202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Author: Jon Orman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-08-27
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1402088914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe preamble to the post-apartheid South African constitution states that ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity’ and promises to ‘lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which government is based on the will of the people and every citizen is equally protected by law’ and to ‘improve the quality of life of all citizens’. This would seem to commit the South African government to, amongst other things, the implementation of policies aimed at fostering a common sense of South African national identity, at societal dev- opment and at reducing of levels of social inequality. However, in the period of more than a decade that has now elapsed since the end of apartheid, there has been widespread discontent with regard to the degree of progress made in connection with the realisation of these constitutional aspirations. The ‘limits to liberation’ in the post-apartheid era has been a theme of much recent research in the ?elds of sociology and political theory (e. g. Luckham, 1998; Robins, 2005a). Linguists have also paid considerable attention to the South African situation with the realisation that many of the factors that have prevented, and are continuing to prevent, effective progress towards the achievement of these constitutional goals are linguistic in their origin.
Author: Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1040109985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and redefining among the global South societies is an essential step towards decolonising the digital landscape and ensuring that indigenous voices and worldviews are equally infused, represented, and privileged in the process of higher-level communication, exchanging epistemic philosophies, and knowledge expressions. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to engage in the use of digital media as a sphere for resistance and knowledge transformation against the persistent colonialism of power through dominant non-indigenous languages and scientific epistemic systems. It further advocates that decolonising digital media spaces through appreciating participatory epistemologies and their languages can help promote the inclusion and empowerment of indigenous communities. It indicates that the decolonial process can also help to redress the historical and ongoing injustices that have disadvantaged many indigenous communities in the global South and contributed to their marginalisation. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and academics in communication, media studies, languages, linguistics, cultural studies, and indigenous knowledge systems in higher education institutions. It will be a valuable resource for those interested in epistemologies of the South, decoloniality, postcoloniality, indigenisation, participatory knowledge, indigenous language legacies, indigenous artificial intelligence, and digital media in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.