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Browsing Research Articles (Modern European Languages) by Title
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Muhr, Stephan
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2023)
Eric Sell, with his stage name and eponymous brand ‚EES,‘ is a German-Namibian musician and producer who creates various artistic styles and products in different media and languages. This article analyses selected music ...
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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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Ikobwa, James Meja
(Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)
With respect to the fire on Kilimanjaro in 2020, the following article indicates that German media reporting on this incident was not only greatly influenced and affected by colonial imaginaries, but also propagated ...
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Lancho Perea, Luis Andres
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
This study explores the reported changes over time of the use of language learning strategies based on periodic self-reports of undergraduates that studied Spanish as a foreign language for three years. The purpose was to ...
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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 ...
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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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Muhr, Stephan
(Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)
With respect to the fire on Kilimanjaro in 2020, the following article indicates that German media reporting on this incident was not only greatly influenced and affected by colonial imaginaries, but also propagated ...
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Tonleu, Madeleine
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)
In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
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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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Muhr, Stephan
(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019)
Please read abstract in article.
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Lancho Perea, Luis Andrés
(Routledge, 2019)
The study explored how Spanish is learnt at a South African university by analysing students’ self-reports on the use of language learning strategies. A mixed methods design was used. Considering that learning a foreign ...
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Tezokeng, Klaus; Njanjo, Burrhus
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2023-12)
Dogs and animals at large have always triggered scientific debates, especially regarding their capabilities and how they frame humans’ self-perception and cultural representations. These nonhuman others also play a significant ...
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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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Weber, Angelika
(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)
The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and
perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how
intercultural learning can ...
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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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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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Tirvassen, Rada
(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa (AFSSA), 2020-10)
There is a belief that Francophone institutions and organisations
are powerless to counter the attraction of academics towards the
English language. According to many Francophone decisionmakers, the expansion of the ...
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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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De Beer, Anna-Marie; Wolfe, Stephanie; Ndizeye, Omar
(Sage, 2024)
Memorialisation of those who died during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi has been an ongoing concern
for both the Rwandan and non-Rwandan communities. The majority of the existing memorials were initially
constructed ...