Being a member of the speech community facilitates analysis, as the analyst would be able to discern the nuances in the meanings of language where non-members might not. Attempting to describe functions of discourse particles which are essentially non-lexical words that derive their meanings from ...
B. natalensis is also called rooiwortel (Afrikaans), ibhucu (Zulu) and ingcelwane (Xhosa). B. natalensis has been used to heal wounds, rashes, itches, ringworms, chapped lips, stop diarrhoea and vomiting. The plant has been used to manage diabetes, sexually transmitted diseases, and ...
This study investigates the link between language and identity in a few enclaved Afrikaans speaking communities where ascribed identities, i.e. the role of 'self' as opposed to 'the other', is particularly salient. Given the role of both 'self-identification' and the perceptions and attitudes ...
Thus, simply using an ingroup designator (e.g., “we”) in thought or speech to refer to a person may automatically establish a positive predisposition toward that person, whereas the use of an outgroup designator (e.g., “they”) may elicit a less positive or even a negative ...
It might at a pinch be reasonable to call the Dutch–German network a language, but it would be unreasonable to call West Germanic, the next node up the tree, anything but a family, since English, Friesian, Afrikaans, Dutch–German, and Yiddish are all quite distinct from each other. Whe...
(Chaudenson, 1992, 2001;Mufwene, 1997). This has in fact raised issues about whether or not Afrikaans as spoken by the Afrikaners is a creole.Hesseling (1897)saw it in a different light, as not a creole (in contrast with Negerhollands, produced by African slaves in the Virgin Islands)...
List of issues provided by the respondents: Chinese patients; Orthodox Muslim patients; Afrikaans; language influence; diet and lifestyle; social values; accent; education and vocal hygiene habits, use of confidential voice; religious issues and beliefs; children’s expected behavior; variations in pr...
To take a simple example: an instrument may use a strongly disagree–strongly agree response scale in English because these anchors are commonly used in everyday speech and thus will likely be familiar to respondents. When a literal translation is produced, however, there is no guarantee that ...
Attempts to promote the use of any other language as national or official have resulted either in failure or limited success (Bamgbose, 2020:662). The case of South Africa where nine African languages are recognized as co-official languages with English and Afrikaans in the country's ...
Some examples of creole languages are the following: 1. Creole Tok Pisin, which means ‘speech business’ is one of the official languages of Papua, New Guinea and is an admixture of English, Melanesian languages, and German; 2. Haitian Creole, a combination of French and African languages;...