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Personal names in language contact situations: A case of Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria
(University of the Free State, 2015)
In Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria, languages incorporate a number
of loanwords as personal names as a result of increasing contact with other
languages and cultures. Such words are, therefore, borrowed wholesale ...
Elvis Presley in the South African musical imaginary
(University of the Free State, 2015)
This paper derives its impetus from a question an elderly American woman once asked
me: “Do people in South Africa know Elvis?” “Of course we South Africans know Elvis!”
I replied. Or do we, really? Using a historiographic ...
Adaptation – A model for bringing human rights and religions together
(University of the Free State, 2015)
From the perspective of a collective – e.g. a religion, culture, tradition, society, or
civilisation, human rights can seem to be an individualistic approach undermining the
community. This negative view of human rights ...
A (Tall) Tale of Two Sisters: Integrating rhetorical and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to explore unreliable narration in film
(University of the Free State, 2015)
There is a sustained debate in the academy about the role of narratology in film studies.
This article forms part of this larger debate in exploring the application of the concept
of unreliable narration to films, ...
School choice, school costs: the case of inner city Johannesburg private schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)
This study explores school choice and school commuting within the City of
Johannesburg, with specific reference to enrolment in low cost inner city private high
schools. The study found that the majority of learners ...
Romanticism reconsidered: Fanon, reciprocity and revolution (on Fanon’s ninetieth birthday)
(University of the Free State, 2015)
A romantic figure of “Third World” revolution and Black liberation, Frantz Fanon is
often considered an advocate of violence as liberation therapy. Questioning the idea
of Fanon as a romantic with an a priori set of ideas ...
Accented futures. Language activism and the ending of apartheid
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Abstract not available
Anthropology and the study of earthen architecture in South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2015)
The contribution of anthropology to the study of shelter in Africa has been found
wanting. Social Anthropology in Africa and South Africa in particular has been guilty
of this neglect, while scholars from the Volkekunde ...
Reflections on legal education and radical intellectual equality
(University of the Free State, 2015)
In this article I reflect, against the background of the recent special issue of this journal
titled: “Law as humanities discipline: Transformative potential and political limits”,
on the notion of radical intellectual ...