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(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2009)This paper reflects on a telecollaborative project with second-year students of German between the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Colgate University (United States of America) in 2008. The project resulted ...
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(University of Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...
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Die Auslotung des Menschenmöglichen : die Verschränkung von Sprache und Identität bei Hugo Loetscher (AOSIS Open Journals, 2015-11-30)Over the course of his career as a writer, Swiss intellectual Hugo Loetscher developed a fragmentary body of ideas on the themes of language and identity respectively. In this article, it is shown that these two themes ...
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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)In Herta Muller's book of collages Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen, a number of themes can be identified. Stretching from the animal and plant world through seasons and snow to human beings like father and mother, ...
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(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019)Please read abstract in article.
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(Southern African Association of German, 2016)In making the case for the public role of religion in post-modernity, post-secularism posits the translatability of the claims of religion into claims on the grounds of morality and rationality. While much scope is given ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how intercultural learning can ...
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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)This article analyses how studies on regional Frenches identify the phenomenon studied and how knowledge is elaborated. It addresses the issue of the relationship between ideological choices and the theoretical and ...
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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)When a group of African intellectuals undertake a collective journey to Rwanda four years after the genocide against the Tutsis, Tierno Monénembo writes his narrative, L'aîné des orphelins, from the point of view of Faustin, ...
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Langues et États-nations dans les pays du Sud ou revoir les fondements théoriques de nos disciplines (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)At a time when social sciences are no longer beyond question and criticism, it is reasonable to believe that researchers must spend their resources not only on producing knowledge but also on examining the type of knowledge ...
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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa (AFSSA), 2020-10)There is a belief that Francophone institutions and organisations are powerless to counter the attraction of academics towards the English language. According to many Francophone decisionmakers, the expansion of the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2011-12)Early on in his acquaintance with Goethe, Schiller criticised Goethe's 'philosophy' as too subjective: 'It takes too much from the world of [the] senses, whereas I take from the soul.' Today, subjectivity is the opposite ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)On July 7th 1914, the British government requested general Louis Botha to take over the German radio transmitters in Luderitz and Swakopmund. The German forces, unable to withhold the attack any longer, surrendered on July ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015-01)Various writers and survivors have offered literary responses to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. In 1998, a group of African intellectuals, mostly non-Rwandans, of whom two were female authors, participated in a ...
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(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2008)Taal bestaan nie in woordeboeke of teorieë nie, slegs in die spraak. Daarom wil ek verstaan wat gebeur as ’n mens praat. Spraak is nie net kommunikasiemiddel nie, maar die manier waarop die mens sigself in eie liggaam ...
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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)L’ouverture croissante de l’Afrique du Sud sur l’Afrique francophone implique que les enseignants de FLE puissent renouveler les programmes d’enseignement de français afin de trouver une articulation plus étroite entre les ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2018)Learning a language’s grammar is frequently experienced as a complicated, abstract and often boring process. To alleviate this situation, scholars like Harald Weinrich advocate the use of literature in grammar teaching and ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)The novels Tschick (2010) and Sand (2011) by Wolfgang Herrndorf are based on two complementary models of narrative identity which are analyzed by their respective processing of contingency. While in Tschick a relatively ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-26)In the face of collective trauma such as genocide, apartheid, mass killings and xenophobia, ubuntu requires of us to show solidarity with our fellow human beings. To my mind, one of the highest forms of doing so is to ...
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