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  • Discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English : a corpus-based comparative analysis 
    Chapwanya, Faith Chiedza; Nel, Joanine Hester (Wiley, 2024-03)
    This analysis of discourse markers so and well in Zimbabwean English (ZE) and British English was carried out to determine possible statistically significant variations in their occurrence and function frequencies in spoken ...
  • Afrika-oraliteit by Eugène Marais : die wisselwerking tussen enkele “Sangedigte” en Dwaalstories 
    Van Niekerk, Jacomien (Jacomina) (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022-09)
    In this article I analyse the criticism surrounding two songs from a well-known collection of oral prose narratives told by a San performer, transcribed by the white Afrikaans author Eugène Marais and published as Dwaalstories ...
  • Between transnational socialism and white privilege : Afrikaner woman worker’s ‘library’ in the 1930s and 1940s 
    Drwal, Małgorzata (Routledge, 2023)
    In this article, I set out to introduce the Garment Workers Union (GWU) prose as a neglected part of Afrikaans-language literature. I offer an overview of texts written or translated by the GWU members and published in the ...
  • Transnasionale ontlaering 
    Smit, Mathilda; Burger, Bibi; Linde, Janien (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    Die Ontlaeringprojek, geloods in 2018, het ten doel om platforms te skep wat dit moontlik maak om die pedagogiek van Afrikaans te herverbeel. Die fokus was aanvanklik op die letterkunde, maar reeds van die begin af was ...
  • The power of exclusion in the works of Andre Brink and Assia Djebar 
    Steenekamp, Carina (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022-09-18)
    South African author André Brink and the Algerian Assia Djebar have been described as a duo of literature and struggle. Various parallels exist between the authors’ oeuvres: both authors strive to create a chain of voices ...
  • The Garment Workers’ Union Pageant of Unity (1940) as manifestation of transnational working-class culture 
    Drwal, Małgorzata (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    In this article, I examine the Garment Workers’ Union’s theatre as a manifestation of transnational working-class culture in the 1940s. Analysing Pageant of Unity (1940), a play in which Afrikaans and English alternate ...
  • Hein Willemse : teen die grein / against the grain 
    Van Niekerk, Jacomien (Jacomina); Van Wyk, Steward (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    Die kernfeite rondom Heinrich Stephen Samuel Willemse is in die openbare domein. Hy is op 18 September 1957 op Ladismith in die destydse Kaapprovinsie gebore en gaan skool op Mosselbaai en daarna Worcester, waar hy aan ...
  • Grond/Santekraam en bientang : gesitueer in globale swart seeroetes 
    Burger, Bibi (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    The Afrikaans poetry collections grond/Santekraam (2011) by Ronelda S. Kamfer and bientang (2020) by Jolyn Phillips both centralise the ocean and both deal with attempts at recovering repressed black histories. Apart from ...
  • In-between spaces in Klara du Plessis’s Ekke : identity, language and art 
    Maessen, Francine; Burger, Bibi; Smit, Mathilda (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    In this review article, we focus on the depiction of the transnational and translingual as a state of being in-between in Klara du Plessis’s debut poetry collection, Ekke (2018). This in-between state has implications for ...
  • Stories of fathers, stories of the nation : fatherhood and paternal power in South African literature 
    Rabie, Delia (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
    Grant Andrews se Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation (2021) is ’n chronologiese analise van enkele Suid- Afrikaanse tekste waarin spesifiek narratiewe oor vaders op die voorgrond geplaas word. Andrews benut die nuwe ...
  • Propaganda as expressed through nouns 
    Maritz, Ansie (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2022)
    Previous studies have often used a critical discourse approach to analyse propaganda texts. Although the social function of language in propaganda texts is well recognised and researched, the systematic aspect of the ...
  • Kunswerk wat iets losmaak 
    Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021)
    Die hoofkarakter in Francois Smith se jongste roman is ʼn dokter op ʼn plattelandse dorp. Wanneer dokter Gustav van Aardt voor een van die kunswerke in sy spreekkamer staan, dink hy: “Egte kuns is nie net mooi prentjies ...
  • Onneersitbare leeservaring 
    Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-08)
    Op die laaste bladsy van Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg. dink die hoofkarakter: “Dit het tyd geword dat ek die glas water vat (hoewel ek nie dink ʼn glasie water gaan dit vir jou doen nie), en die wit kers opsteek, en ...
  • Fiksie in ʼn wêreld met inligting ʼn vingerklik ver 
    Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-04)
    Anker is immers ʼn dosent in skryfkunde aan Stellenbosch waar hy lank saam met Marlene van Niekerk gewerk het en nou in haar groot skoene staan. Boonop is sy vorige werk hoog aangeskryf. Aanvanklik is dit egter moeilik ...
  • Bisar, maar insiggewend 
    Burger, Willie (Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd, 2021-06)
    As jy ʼn boek wil lees wat jou om die beurt laat lag en huil, jou in ongeloof jou kop laat skud, jou na jou foon laat gryp om ongeloofwaardige feite te google en te vind dit ís inderdaad so, alles terwyl jy jou naels ...
  • “Harba lori fa” : ’n tekstuele en intertekstuele reis 
    Ohlhoff, Heinrich (Carl Heinrich Friedrich) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2021-12)
    This article is about three poetry texts: “Eens Meienmorgens vroe” (Early one May morning) by the 13th century Dutch minstrel Duke Jan I of Brabant, and texts by two twentieth-century poets – TT Cloete (Afrikaans) and ...
  • Ou skoolsaal of teater – die opvoerruimtes van die Cape flats players en die Eoan-groep 
    Willemse, Hein (Heinrich Stephen Samuel) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2021-12)
    In 1983 the theatre researcher Temple Hauptfleisch raised concerns about the decline in South African amateur theatre (also called amdram). He identified several factors that could support its continued development, among ...
  • Hans Joachim Schadlich und die niederlandische Lyrik : ubersetzungen im verlegerischen feld der DDR 
    Zajas, Pawel (De Gruyter, 2021)
    The paper reveals the backstage of a modern Dutch poetry anthology Gedichte aus Belgien und den Niederlanden (1977), published by an East German publisher Volk & Welt. An analysis of the surviving correspondence, ...
  • Chaos i porządek archiwum 
    Zajas, Pawel (Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2021)
    Zajas discusses the selection and interpretation of documents in the context of the literary archive, which emerged as an institution at the end of the nineteenth century. First he examines the internal and external ...
  • A cross-linguistic study of blood metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho 
    Bosman, Nerina; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2021)
    Although a considerable body of corpus-based metaphor research—with Conceptual Metaphor Theory as theoretical framework and heuristic tool—has been published internationally, South African studies in this field are lagging ...