The attitudes of isiXhosa-speaking students toward language of learning and teaching issues at Rhodes University, South Africa: General trends1
- Aziakpono, Philomena, Bekker, Ian
- Authors: Aziakpono, Philomena , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469212 , vital:77220 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2010.488442
- Description: This paper, selectively based on the results of Aziakpono (2007), examines the beliefs of isiXhosa-speaking students and in the process reveals their attitudes toward various languages of learning and teaching (LOLT) issues at Rhodes University, South Africa. The relevant data were gathered using a survey questionnaire and interviews (individual and focus group).
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Aziakpono, Philomena , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469212 , vital:77220 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2010.488442
- Description: This paper, selectively based on the results of Aziakpono (2007), examines the beliefs of isiXhosa-speaking students and in the process reveals their attitudes toward various languages of learning and teaching (LOLT) issues at Rhodes University, South Africa. The relevant data were gathered using a survey questionnaire and interviews (individual and focus group).
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- Date Issued: 2010
An acoustic analysis of White South African English (WSAfE) monophthongs
- Authors: Bekker, Ian , Eley, Georgina
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469179 , vital:77217 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486449
- Description: This article has two main aims: (1) to introduce instrumental acoustic techniques to the analysis of the WSAfE accent, and (2), to provide tentative evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of this accent. As such, focus falls on an acoustic analysis of the monophthongs of WSAfE, as produced by ten young South African women in citation-form. Half of the subjects are from the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg, the other half from East London. The results of the analysis provide some evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of WSAfE i.e. the lowering and retraction of the so-called TRAP vowel.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Bekker, Ian , Eley, Georgina
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469179 , vital:77217 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486449
- Description: This article has two main aims: (1) to introduce instrumental acoustic techniques to the analysis of the WSAfE accent, and (2), to provide tentative evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of this accent. As such, focus falls on an acoustic analysis of the monophthongs of WSAfE, as produced by ten young South African women in citation-form. Half of the subjects are from the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg, the other half from East London. The results of the analysis provide some evidence for a new prestige value in the Johannesburg (Northern Suburbs) variety of WSAfE i.e. the lowering and retraction of the so-called TRAP vowel.
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- Date Issued: 2007
The body as a site of struggle: Oppositional discourses of the disciplined female body
- Pienaar, Kiran M, Bekker, Ian
- Authors: Pienaar, Kiran M , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469223 , vital:77221 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486480
- Description: This article presents the results of a study on the discursive construction of one aspect of gender identity, namely the female physical ideal. It reports on an analysis of the discourses of the disciplined female body, as these are drawn upon in two conversations between a group of young, Western female university students. The conversations were elicited in August 2005 using a stimulus exercise designed to encourage discussion on issues relating to female body image, such as the notion of the ideal female body, dieting and plastic surgery. Using the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2001) the article analyses four related discourses, namely the pro-diet discourse, the discourse of the healthy body, the discourse of studied indifference and the discourse of the sexually attractive female body, in terms of how these discourses encode different, sometimes contradictory ideologies of the Western female body ideal. The article concludes that the discourse of the sexually attractive female body emerges as dominant in these conversational extracts and that, by colonising the other discourses, it legitimates its ethic of compulsory heterosexuality, which positions women as erotic objects of the male gaze.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Pienaar, Kiran M , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469223 , vital:77221 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486480
- Description: This article presents the results of a study on the discursive construction of one aspect of gender identity, namely the female physical ideal. It reports on an analysis of the discourses of the disciplined female body, as these are drawn upon in two conversations between a group of young, Western female university students. The conversations were elicited in August 2005 using a stimulus exercise designed to encourage discussion on issues relating to female body image, such as the notion of the ideal female body, dieting and plastic surgery. Using the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2001) the article analyses four related discourses, namely the pro-diet discourse, the discourse of the healthy body, the discourse of studied indifference and the discourse of the sexually attractive female body, in terms of how these discourses encode different, sometimes contradictory ideologies of the Western female body ideal. The article concludes that the discourse of the sexually attractive female body emerges as dominant in these conversational extracts and that, by colonising the other discourses, it legitimates its ethic of compulsory heterosexuality, which positions women as erotic objects of the male gaze.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Invoking the feminine physical ideal: Bitch-slapping, she-men and butch girls
- Pienaar, Kiran M, Bekker, Ian
- Authors: Pienaar, Kiran M , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469201 , vital:77219 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610609486432
- Description: This paper presents the results of research on the discursive construction of one aspect of gender identity: the female physical ideal. Applying Butler's (1993) theory of performativity to a real-life local context, it critically analyses how a group of young South African women discursively construct and perform the notion of the ideal feminine body in conversation with their female friends. Furthermore, it uses elements of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework (Fairclough, 1992; 2001) to provide a linguistic analysis of the ideologies which underlie this construction. Recognising that ideologies are unstable and dynamic, it seeks to account for the ideological tensions and ambiguities in the discourses surrounding the feminine body.
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- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Pienaar, Kiran M , Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469201 , vital:77219 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610609486432
- Description: This paper presents the results of research on the discursive construction of one aspect of gender identity: the female physical ideal. Applying Butler's (1993) theory of performativity to a real-life local context, it critically analyses how a group of young South African women discursively construct and perform the notion of the ideal feminine body in conversation with their female friends. Furthermore, it uses elements of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework (Fairclough, 1992; 2001) to provide a linguistic analysis of the ideologies which underlie this construction. Recognising that ideologies are unstable and dynamic, it seeks to account for the ideological tensions and ambiguities in the discourses surrounding the feminine body.
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- Date Issued: 2006
An attitude scale for measuring language attitudes at South African tertiary institutions
- Authors: Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2004
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469190 , vital:77218 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610409486359
- Description: This article presents findings based on an exploratory factor analysis of the results of a mini-survey conducted at the University of South Africa (UNISA). The factor-analytic results are subjected to an item analysis, which allows for the construction of an attitude scale that can be usefully employed to measure the attitudes of L1 African-language students towards the use of African languages as Languages of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) at South African tertiary institutions. The article includes an overview of the context in which the research was conducted, deals briefly with the applicability of exploratory factor analysis for this form of research and then presents the necessary data; i.e.the results of the factor and item analyses as well as the final attitude scale. The procedures followed during the course of both the factor analysis and item analysis are given explicit treatment in the article, since it is hoped that a full exposition of the processes involved will encourage more extensive use of these methods among linguists working in relevant sub-disciplines in South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2004
- Authors: Bekker, Ian
- Date: 2004
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469190 , vital:77218 , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610409486359
- Description: This article presents findings based on an exploratory factor analysis of the results of a mini-survey conducted at the University of South Africa (UNISA). The factor-analytic results are subjected to an item analysis, which allows for the construction of an attitude scale that can be usefully employed to measure the attitudes of L1 African-language students towards the use of African languages as Languages of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) at South African tertiary institutions. The article includes an overview of the context in which the research was conducted, deals briefly with the applicability of exploratory factor analysis for this form of research and then presents the necessary data; i.e.the results of the factor and item analyses as well as the final attitude scale. The procedures followed during the course of both the factor analysis and item analysis are given explicit treatment in the article, since it is hoped that a full exposition of the processes involved will encourage more extensive use of these methods among linguists working in relevant sub-disciplines in South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2004
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