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This study explored the role played by economic, cultural, and political power and influence when a particular dialect was elevated to the status of an official standard language. This was a ... . However, these dialects were considered superior and elevated to the status of official languages because of socio-economic power and political influence. This article further recorded that the status type
political commentary that accompanies and underpins it. Building on these insights, the present study investigates Bosman's preoccupation with South Africa's politics in order to determine whether he could be ... analyses selected texts in terms of their political themes - five short stories from the collections Ramoutsa Road (1987), Unto Dust (1991) and the novel Willemsdorp (written in 1951, first published in 1977
that: [t]he political philosophy of the annihilation of enemies has underpinned ZANU-PF's attitude to state power not only during the liberation struggle and the 1980 election; it has been ... , deformed, non-existent and uncanny, embodies and stitches together pervasive economic, social and political crises that confront Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the post-2000 period (Jones 2010). This article
time and the gender of the reigning monarch, has exemplified either the negative or the positive attitudes required from a national icon. I will suggest that social, religious and political ... the figure of Boudica for political purposes rather than for her historical value. I then trace this form of ideological manipulation through the Renaissance and into the Victorian period. Various
upon a philosophy of political repression and a denial of human rights to African people (Adelokun 2022) . Writers such as Maphalla have contributed to social protest category as well. Tsambo (1999 ... ) postulates that Maphalla was a staunch political activist who worked hard to fight the past white oppressive regime in his own way, and in his books, he depicts the life of an ordinary black people under an
that: [t]he political philosophy of the annihilation of enemies has underpinned ZANU-PF's attitude to state power not only during the liberation struggle and the 1980 election; it has been ... , deformed, non-existent and uncanny, embodies and stitches together pervasive economic, social and political crises that confront Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the post-2000 period (Jones 2010). This article
, avoidance of reminders and an ongoing sense of threat. An interdisciplinary literary-psychological approach will probably lead to a deeper understanding of the mental consequences of political imprisonment ... political imprisonment, as PTSD was not an acknowledged disorder during Madikizela-Mandela's detainment. 'They destroyed your being; you are made to feel a nobody.' Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (2013
, avoidance of reminders and an ongoing sense of threat. An interdisciplinary literary-psychological approach will probably lead to a deeper understanding of the mental consequences of political imprisonment ... political imprisonment, as PTSD was not an acknowledged disorder during Madikizela-Mandela's detainment. 'They destroyed your being; you are made to feel a nobody.' Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (2013
'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom
'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom
'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom
'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom
acknowledgement is hereby updated as follows:This article is partially based on the author's thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics, School of Literature, Language and Media
Indies and the Caribbean; the omnipresence of political and social discourse which takes precedence over poetic reflection; the metalanguage of the manifesto due to the fact that writers are also generally
Indies and the Caribbean; the omnipresence of political and social discourse which takes precedence over poetic reflection; the metalanguage of the manifesto due to the fact that writers are also generally
Indies and the Caribbean; the omnipresence of political and social discourse which takes precedence over poetic reflection; the metalanguage of the manifesto due to the fact that writers are also generally
Indies and the Caribbean; the omnipresence of political and social discourse which takes precedence over poetic reflection; the metalanguage of the manifesto due to the fact that writers are also generally
Five language activists followed different political strategies between 1875 and 1925 to ensure Afrikaans became one of the official languages of South Africa. S.J. du Toit tried to promote Afrikaans ... were outright anti-Dutch. Through their political actions, they established Afrikaans for certain functions, even before official recognition. Langenhoven also accelerated the standardisation of
of the kind of political malaise that left its populace in a state of great despair and hopelessness. To that end, the article examines literary works by Malawian writers, notably Legson Kayira, Frank ... rendered visible in these works through the personal fears, anxieties and frustrations of living in an era of such repressive politics and political heavy-handedness. Thus the writers of this particular
her era in her domesticity and embroidery. The divide between men and women was clear in early China. Yin and Yang philosophy prescribed the contrasting positions of men and women. 'Yin' was ... States from 1880-1930', Italian Americana 28(1), 18-35. [ Links ] Rubin, G., 1975, 'The traffic in women: Notes on the political economy of sex', in R. Reiter (ed.), Toward an anthropology of
