Vic Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 104059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vic Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vic |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Knowledge in the blood (Jonathan D. Jansen)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Constructing an inclusive speech community from two mutually excluding ones
The article deals with the aim of leaders in the Afrikaans community to maintain Afrikaans as a language of high-function formal contexts in post-1994 South Africa through the construction of a community which meaningfully includes all its speakers as members, referred to as a “speech community”. Basing the concept “speech community” on Johnson and Milani’s description of such a language as “a complete and society-bearing language” and on Pavlenk…
In Honour of Theodorus du Plessis
Managing multilingualism in higher education in post-1994 South Africa
Focusing mainly on the historically (white) Afrikaans universities, the article discusses two fundamental aspects of a multilingual higher education environment in the South African context: the concept of a multilingual and multicultural university, and the research which needs to be done in this regard. Arguing that linguistic and cultural diversity is a valuable national asset which needs to be protected and promoted, also in the higher educat…
The politics of standardising Bantu languages in South Africa
This article discusses the essential need for developing the Bantu languages of South Africa into fully-fledged standard languages. Departing from the standard definition of standard language, and emphasising the notion of fully-fledged standard language, it points out – with reference to communities' negative attitudes to the prescribed ‘standards’, the lack of competency in these varieties, the use of urban vernaculars (even in school contexts)…
Multilingualism in South Africa
The aim of the article is to discuss the process of national linguistic transformation in South Africa 'from below', with reference to a language planning project of a South African government department. Language planning is traditionally seen as a top-down process – initiated and managed by authoritative bodies, usually government institutions such as the Department of Arts and Culture in South Africa. This approach to linguistic transformation…
African Voices
Language as a problem in Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the languages of Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure linguistics - an overview, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure languages in contact in Africa, Nkonko Kamwamgamulu languages in competition, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo system in the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo building techniques in African languages, D. Okoth Okombo the lexicons of Africa, Danie Prinsloo, Albina R. C…
English as a second language in South Africa's tertiary institutions
This paper uses the University of Pretoria as a point of reference and explicates that the use of a second language as language of learning and teaching (LoL/T) could be detrimental to the academic development of students as well as to the assessment of their progress, if the students concerned do not have the expected proficiency in the LoL/T, which, in the case of the University of Pretoria, is English. The argument is motivated on the basis of…
Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism
One ofthe central problems in the politics of South Africa's many languages is their sociocultural meanings, which range from negative connotations to cases where a language is regarded as a core element in the continued sociopolitical existence ofits Speakers. In both instances, but particularly in the latter case, such meanings couldprove to be obstades to nation building. This is especially so in the case of Afrikaans, which is a basic constit…
Multilingualism in democratic South Africa
Multilingualism as a developmental resource
This paper is, essentially, a description of the conceptual framework for an on-going research program on Multilingualism as a developmental resource, which seeks to contribute to the development of a genuinely multilingual policy for democratic South Africa. The paper argues that multilingualism can make a positive contribution to development. It discusses the role of language in development, illustrating this role in four fields of national dev…
Language planning and politics in South Africa
The article discusses the wie of language policy and language planning in the establishment of democracy and nation building in a postapartheid South Africa. Given the country's history of colonialism and apartheid, language in South Africa has played a central r ole in dividing the country, in raising its conflict potential, and in establishing a contextfor manipulation and exploitation in many domains of public life. On April 27, 1994, the coun…
Language Policy and Planning in South Africa
Academic involvement in language policy and planning in South Africa must be seen within the context of the country's sociolinguistic complexity and the relationship between language and a number of serious problems in the country. South Africa's sociolinguistic complexity (see Appendix) is a function of a number of factors: 1) a multiplicity of languages and cultures; 2) the overlapping demographical and geographical distribution of the country'…
African Voices
Language as a problem in Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the languages of Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure linguistics - an overview, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure languages in contact in Africa, Nkonko Kamwamgamulu languages in competition, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo system in the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo building techniques in African languages, D. Okoth Okombo the lexicons of Africa, Danie Prinsloo, Albina R. C…
Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism
One ofthe central problems in the politics of South Africa's many languages is their sociocultural meanings, which range from negative connotations to cases where a language is regarded as a core element in the continued sociopolitical existence ofits Speakers. In both instances, but particularly in the latter case, such meanings couldprove to be obstades to nation building. This is especially so in the case of Afrikaans, which is a basic constit…
Multilingualism in democratic South Africa
Constructing an inclusive speech community from two mutually excluding ones
The article deals with the aim of leaders in the Afrikaans community to maintain Afrikaans as a language of high-function formal contexts in post-1994 South Africa through the construction of a community which meaningfully includes all its speakers as members, referred to as a “speech community”. Basing the concept “speech community” on Johnson and Milani’s description of such a language as “a complete and society-bearing language” and on Pavlenk…
Language planning and politics in South Africa
The article discusses the wie of language policy and language planning in the establishment of democracy and nation building in a postapartheid South Africa. Given the country's history of colonialism and apartheid, language in South Africa has played a central r ole in dividing the country, in raising its conflict potential, and in establishing a contextfor manipulation and exploitation in many domains of public life. On April 27, 1994, the coun…
Language Policy and Planning in South Africa
Academic involvement in language policy and planning in South Africa must be seen within the context of the country's sociolinguistic complexity and the relationship between language and a number of serious problems in the country. South Africa's sociolinguistic complexity (see Appendix) is a function of a number of factors: 1) a multiplicity of languages and cultures; 2) the overlapping demographical and geographical distribution of the country'…
Language planning and politics in South Africa
The article discusses the wie of language policy and language planning in the establishment of democracy and nation building in a postapartheid South Africa. Given the country's history of colonialism and apartheid, language in South Africa has played a central r ole in dividing the country, in raising its conflict potential, and in establishing a contextfor manipulation and exploitation in many domains of public life. On April 27, 1994, the coun…
Multilingualism as a developmental resource
This paper is, essentially, a description of the conceptual framework for an on-going research program on Multilingualism as a developmental resource, which seeks to contribute to the development of a genuinely multilingual policy for democratic South Africa. The paper argues that multilingualism can make a positive contribution to development. It discusses the role of language in development, illustrating this role in four fields of national dev…
Multilingualism in democratic South Africa
Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism
One ofthe central problems in the politics of South Africa's many languages is their sociocultural meanings, which range from negative connotations to cases where a language is regarded as a core element in the continued sociopolitical existence ofits Speakers. In both instances, but particularly in the latter case, such meanings couldprove to be obstades to nation building. This is especially so in the case of Afrikaans, which is a basic constit…
African Voices
Language as a problem in Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the languages of Africa, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure linguistics - an overview, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure languages in contact in Africa, Nkonko Kamwamgamulu languages in competition, Vic Webb and Kembo-Sure the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo system in the sounds of Africa, Herman Batibo building techniques in African languages, D. Okoth Okombo the lexicons of Africa, Danie Prinsloo, Albina R. C…
English as a second language in South Africa's tertiary institutions
This paper uses the University of Pretoria as a point of reference and explicates that the use of a second language as language of learning and teaching (LoL/T) could be detrimental to the academic development of students as well as to the assessment of their progress, if the students concerned do not have the expected proficiency in the LoL/T, which, in the case of the University of Pretoria, is English. The argument is motivated on the basis of…
Multilingualism in South Africa
The aim of the article is to discuss the process of national linguistic transformation in South Africa 'from below', with reference to a language planning project of a South African government department. Language planning is traditionally seen as a top-down process – initiated and managed by authoritative bodies, usually government institutions such as the Department of Arts and Culture in South Africa. This approach to linguistic transformation…
The politics of standardising Bantu languages in South Africa
This article discusses the essential need for developing the Bantu languages of South Africa into fully-fledged standard languages. Departing from the standard definition of standard language, and emphasising the notion of fully-fledged standard language, it points out – with reference to communities' negative attitudes to the prescribed ‘standards’, the lack of competency in these varieties, the use of urban vernaculars (even in school contexts)…
Managing multilingualism in higher education in post-1994 South Africa
Focusing mainly on the historically (white) Afrikaans universities, the article discusses two fundamental aspects of a multilingual higher education environment in the South African context: the concept of a multilingual and multicultural university, and the research which needs to be done in this regard. Arguing that linguistic and cultural diversity is a valuable national asset which needs to be protected and promoted, also in the higher educat…
In Honour of Theodorus du Plessis
Knowledge in the blood (Jonathan D. Jansen)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Constructing an inclusive speech community from two mutually excluding ones
The article deals with the aim of leaders in the Afrikaans community to maintain Afrikaans as a language of high-function formal contexts in post-1994 South Africa through the construction of a community which meaningfully includes all its speakers as members, referred to as a “speech community”. Basing the concept “speech community” on Johnson and Milani’s description of such a language as “a complete and society-bearing language” and on Pavlenk…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Multilingualism (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)