Blogs

  • Linguistic and cultural hybridity is our identity

    Author: Deon du Plessis (SADiLaR English Researcher)  “I believe that linguistic and cultural hybridity is our identity.”[1] The concept of naturalisation is applied to people who immigrate and integrate into a new country to the extent that they are granted citizenship.[2] Nkonko Kamwangamalu uses this framework to describe how (South) African English has been naturalised, in…

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  • First Foreign Language Teaching International Conference

    Author: Rooweither Mabuya The South African Centre for Digital Languages Resources (SADiLaR) in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal together with the Durban University of Technology, the Confucius Institute co-sponsored the first Foreign Language Teaching International Conference in Durban.

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  • Is there a branch of language that doesn’t deserve being studied? Impressions in the light of VivA’s Vloek met flair (en voorbehoud)-symposium on swearing in Afrikaans

    Is there a branch of language that doesn’t deserve being studied? Impressions in the light of VivA’s Vloek met flair (en voorbehoud)-symposium on swearing in AfrikaansAuthor – Benito Trollip (SADiLaR Afrikaans Researcher) The Virtual Institute for Afrikaans (VivA) held a public symposium titled “Vloek met flair (en voorbehoud)”1 in Pretoria on Friday, 15 November 2019.…

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