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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Afrikaans language"”.
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The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s
… apartheid project. This research focuses on Afrikaans-language films and series produced from the 1930s to the first decades of the 21st century, focusing on representations of the South African War, either as a topic or as a backdrop to the filmic narrative. The films are analysed as sites …
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Afrikaans in democratic South Africa :a survey of scholary contributions and tendentious reporting regarding the status of Afrikaans and the other official languages of South Africa
In this study I looked at the issue of the Afrikaans language, which is most often approached from a position of strong vested interest, either in support or against it. This study was intended as an intellectual response to an intensely debated issue. It is a survey of scholarly and tendentious …
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"If you have lied about me, you have lied about everything" : Huis Gideon Malherbe : a discussion of the Afrikaans Taal Museum
… The following thesis is an investigation of the Afrikaans Taal museum, or Afrikaans Language Museum situated in Paarl, Cape Province. The museum aims to reproduce a history of the Afrikaans language, culminating in the eventual recognition of Afrikaans as an official language. In the thesis …
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Die advertensie
"When does a language die?" This question leads to the central, overarching theme explored in the novel. The protagonist is a naive twenty-something who runs a boutique advertising agency in the bustling heart of Cape Town. As a published author he has a passion for Afrikaans literature but he …
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
… syntactic variation and change in modern spoken Afrikaans. The Afrikaans language community is heterogeneous, and can be divided into different communication communities according to patterns of segregated residential settlement and limited social interaction (linked to South Africa's history of …
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Language education and national identity : a comparative study of Flemish and Afrikaans L1-instruction materials since 2000
… what views on national identity can be found in language textbooks, this study examines the categories and nature of themes and situations that appear in a recent Flemish and Afrikaans language school textbook. Central to the study is the clarification as to which themes the situations and texts …
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Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.
… in 1956 for the production of English- and Afrikaans-language or 'white' films. This thesis is a critical assessment of the actual film products that the B-Scheme produced. The films are analysed within the broader political, economic and social context of their production and exhibition. …
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n Geintegreerde taakgebaseerde benadering tot die gebruik van kortverhale en gedigte as taalaanleerhulpmiddel vir tweedetaalstudente
… approach, using short stories and poems as language teaching aids for students taking the module Afrikaans Language Learning 189 from the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at Stellenbosch University. The ultimate goal of the task-based lessons is to promote language learners’ macro-skills in …
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Myths of rebellion : Afrikaner and countercultural discourse
… those interested in maintaining the relevance of Afrikaans language and culture. The discussion of the inner workings of style, taste and popularity may also have implications for strategies in the creative arts. Afrikaner cultural rebellion as a case study is thus relevant in terms of its success …
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Ma, performing the White, Afrikaner Woman back to self
… that seek to use these objects, including the Afrikaans language itself, and my own body, to transgress and abject the notions of the border, my body, and subjectto-object and object-to-subject relationality within this very identity I hold. During these performances and moments of …
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Die gebruik van Kaapse visuele kultuur vir Afrikaanstaalaanleer
The use of Cape Afrikaans visual culture serves as a valuable pedagogical teaching tool within Afrikaans language learning. This study investigates how Cape Afrikaans visual culture can be used as a pedagogical teaching tool within a task-based teaching program, to expand the vocabulary of …
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Beyond the punchline: an exploratory multimodal content analysis of LGBTQ+ representations and LGBTQ+ slurs in selected Afrikaans comedy films from 2010-2024
… of LGBTQ+ individuals in specifically Afrikaans comedy films seems underexplored. This study aims to analyse how LGBTQ+ identities are represented in selected Afrikaans comedy films between 2010-2024 and to investigate how LGBTQ+ slurs contribute to the filmic representation of LGBTQ+ …
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A psychometric investigation of the Bem sex role inventory among Western Cape psychology one students
… and secondly, to translate the BSRI into the Afrikaans language and establish norms for Afrikaans students. Subjects were two samples of students (N=lSO, n females = 10.9, n males = 41, each). All subjects were classified '·'white", were full time bona fide Psychology One students from the …
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Variasies in die verskrifteliking van Kaapse Afrikaans: ’n sosiolinguistiese ondersoek
… that approaches variation, as reflected in language varieties and language variants, from a dialectological as well as a sociolinguistic point of view. Two examples of the Afrikaans varieties are Standard Afrikaans and Colloquial Afrikaans. The former variety was initially considered as the …
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Afrikaanssprekendes, Nederlands en Afrikaans in die kerk van die provinsie Suider-Afrika
… the history and current status and usage of Afrikaans in the Anglican Church in Southern Africa. It is clear from the sources that the Anglican Church had contact with, and exercised some form of ministry amongst Afrikaans-spreakers from the earliest years of its presence in Southern Africa. …
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Computational Analyses of South African English – a Data-Driven Approach
… understudied and an inclusive study of the language across the sub-varieties will enable us to uncover words and types of words unique to South African English that have been adopted or donated between the sub-varieties. This is important given South Africa's multilingual, multi-social …
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Understanding pregnancy intention in the Southern African setting: validation of the London measure of unplanned pregnancy in the Cape Town area, South Africa
… aimed to validate the LMUP for use in both the Afrikaans and Xhosa languages in South Africa. Methods: Three Xhosa and three Afrikaans speakers translated the LMUP, in which one translation was agreed upon for each translation. This translation was then back-translated and pre-tested on five to …
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Outeurskapidentifikasie en mikroblogs : 'n eksploratiewe forensiese analise in 'n digitale era
… communication takes place or the ways in which language is used to convey the message, but also creates an ideal opportunity for negative communication (slander and bullying or trolling) and fake profiles. In view of the increasing amount of anonymous profiles, one has to ask who is truly …
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