AA 2013 Volume 45 Issue 4
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Applied linguistics beyond postmodernism
(University of the Free State, 2013)Applied linguistics clearly has modernist roots, which have steadily been eroded by postmodernist views. Opposites, such as quantitative and qualitative, or positivist and postpositivist, are often used to characterise ... -
Can Aristotle’s Phronimos return? The revival of interest in Aristotle’s phronesis in political philosophy/theory
(University of the Free State, 2013)This article explores the contemporary revival of interest in Aristotle’s notion of phronesis, practical wisdom. It commences by analysing this ancient intellectual virtue, its relation to Aristotle’s moral virtues and the ... -
Investigating the moderating effect of student engagement on academic performance
(University of the Free State, 2013)The academic performance and success of students are important for both higher education institutions and students. Student engagement has been identified as a crucial factor in academic success. Studies investigating ... -
Embodied religion’s radicalisation of immanence and the consequent question of transcendence
(University of the Free State, 2013)Transcendence has lost its metaphysical moorings and the tendency in postmodernity is the sublimation of transcendence within a conceptual framework of immanence. In other words, transcendence, in a postmetaphysical world, ... -
Can African traditional culture offer something of value to global approaches in teaching philosophy and religion?
(University of the Free State, 2013)What characterises the dominant global culture is a kind of autism, the loss of a well-articulated sense of self, a reluctance to spell out its core values and aims. A good education system, on the contrary, helps the ... -
Towards the semiotic and the symbolic in music theory and analysis: Kristeva’s dialectics as a model for plurality in metadiscursive and discursive engagements with music
(University of the Free State, 2013)This article examines both metadiscursive and discursive theoretical and analytical engagements with musical experience from the perspective of Julia Kristeva’s distinction between semiotic and symbolic signifying dispositions, ... -
Loyalty, women and ‘business’: ideological hyper-values in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp fiction
(University of the Free State, 2013)This article challenges claims of nihilism and moral relativism in the narrative world of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp fiction (1994) by identifying three sets of recurring values which, in addition to being markers of the ... -
‘Send in the (gay) clowns’: Will & Grace and Modern Family as ‘sensibly queer’
(University of the Free State, 2013)Initial representation of sexual minorities reified gay lifestyle as synonymous with deviancy (Seidman 1996: 6), courtesy of news programmes or documentaries. Several depictions, whether comical or dramatic, led to an ... -
The literary text in turbulent times: an instrument of social cohesion or an eruption of ‘critical’ bliss. Notes on J M Coetzee’s Life and times of Michael K
(University of the Free State, 2013)The article is developed as a “counter-cultural” response to the socio-utilitarian formulations around artistic production typically found in current mission statements of the EU Culture Program. In its argument against ...
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