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Download full textJanks, Hilary – 1989
This document focuses on specific linguistic features that serve ideological functions in texts written in South Africa from 1985 to 1988. The features examined include: naming; metaphors; old words with new meanings; words becoming tainted; renaming or lexicalization; overlexicalization; strategies for resisting classification; tense and aspect;…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Role, Power Structure
Peer reviewedMakoni, Sinfree; Makoe, Pinky – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Reports on an aspect of a larger project broadly examining the role of language in health care practices. Discusses the effects of dementia on the speech of an aging white Xhosa speaker in the context of a health care institution. Dementia has not been conclusively demonstrated in black Africans. Shows the effects of dementia on the responses…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dementia, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
