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Browsing Research Articles (Modern European Languages) by Issue Date
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Peeters, Leopold, 1925-
(Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 2008)
Taal bestaan nie in woordeboeke of teorieë nie, slegs in die spraak. Daarom wil ek
verstaan wat gebeur as ’n mens praat. Spraak is nie net kommunikasiemiddel nie,
maar die manier waarop die mens sigself in eie liggaam ...
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Peeters, Leopold, 1925-
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2009)
This essay submits the modern communication theory to a
critical analysis. This theory constructs an abstract and reductive
model which can not give a pertinent account of what emerges
in the process of existential ...
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Muhr, Stephan
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2009)
This paper reflects on a telecollaborative project with second-year students of German between the
University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Colgate University (United States of America) in 2008. The
project resulted ...
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Muhr, Stephan
(University of Alberta, 2010-10)
Wie können die komplexen Ebenen interkultureller Kompetenz konkret zu interkulturellem Lernen operationalisiert werden? Besteht nicht die Gefahr, dass dabei gerade die Metaebenen kultureller Werte und emotional verankerter ...
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Muhr, Stephan
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2011-12)
Early on in his acquaintance with Goethe, Schiller criticised Goethe's 'philosophy' as too subjective: 'It takes too much from the world of [the] senses, whereas I take from the soul.' Today, subjectivity is the opposite ...
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Weber, Angelika
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)
In Herta Muller's book of collages Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen, a number of themes can be identified. Stretching from the animal and plant world through seasons and snow to human beings like father and mother, ...
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Rust, Willemien R.; De Beer, Anna-Marie; Nagel, Lynette
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)
L’ouverture croissante de l’Afrique du Sud sur l’Afrique francophone implique que les enseignants de FLE puissent renouveler les programmes d’enseignement de français afin de trouver une articulation plus étroite entre les ...
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Zajas, Pawel
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)
On July 7th 1914, the British government requested general Louis Botha to take over the German radio transmitters in Luderitz and Swakopmund. The German forces, unable to withhold the attack any longer, surrendered on July ...
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Muhr, Stephan
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)
The novels Tschick (2010) and Sand (2011) by Wolfgang Herrndorf are based on two complementary models of narrative identity which are analyzed by their respective processing of contingency. While in Tschick a relatively ...
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Tirvassen, Rada
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)
At a time when social sciences are no longer beyond question and criticism, it is reasonable to believe that researchers must spend their resources not only on producing knowledge but also on examining the type of knowledge ...
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De Beer, Anna-Marie; Snyman, Elisabeth
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2015-01)
Various writers and survivors have offered literary responses to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. In 1998, a group of African
intellectuals, mostly non-Rwandans, of whom two were female authors, participated in a ...
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Moji, Polo Belina
(Routledge, 2015-05)
NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner
of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2013 – is a novel in which the leitmotif of (re)naming
associates the trope of migration to ...
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De Beer, Anna-Marie
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-26)
In the face of collective trauma such as genocide, apartheid, mass killings and xenophobia,
ubuntu requires of us to show solidarity with our fellow human beings. To my mind, one of the
highest forms of doing so is to ...
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Grové, Waldo; Muhr, Stephan
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2015-11-30)
Over the course of his career as a writer, Swiss intellectual Hugo Loetscher developed a
fragmentary body of ideas on the themes of language and identity respectively. In this
article, it is shown that these two themes ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Southern African Association of German, 2016)
In making the case for the public role of religion in post-modernity, post-secularism posits the translatability
of the claims of religion into claims on the grounds of morality and rationality. While much
scope is given ...
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Tirvassen, Rada
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)
This article analyses how studies on regional Frenches identify the phenomenon studied and how knowledge is elaborated. It addresses the issue of the relationship between ideological choices and the theoretical and ...
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De Beer, Anna-Marie
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)
When a group of African intellectuals undertake a collective journey to Rwanda four years after the genocide against the Tutsis, Tierno Monénembo writes his narrative, L'aîné des orphelins, from the point of view of Faustin, ...
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Muhr, Stephan
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2016)
Current discussions about borders often do not take into account what Hegel already developed as
a totalizing dialectics of the boundary: Concepts as de-markations include not only the delimited,
the ‘de-fin-ed’, but ...
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Tirvassen, Rada
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2017)
The starting point of this article is that sociolinguistics and in fact any social science should acknowledge that there are different ways of constructing knowledge regarding human behaviour in society and that each of ...
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Tirvassen, Rada; Ramasawmy, Shalini Jagambal
(University of Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)
This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...