Jan Vorster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Vorster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vorster |
| SIGNATURE | VORSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women on South African Farms
This paper explores the role being played by two prominent women groupings in empowering farm women on South African fruit and wine farms. By focusing their efforts on farm wives and women farm workers, the Cape Women's Forum has embarked on a process of empowering farm women across race and class divisions. This approach contrasts with that of the other group - the Women on Farms Project - in that the latter facilitates the empowerment of women …
The Conceptualization of Farm Family Business
Women farm workers on South African deciduous fruit farms
Language and Thought
Work by Alfred Bloom, suggesting that the lack of a distinct counterfactual marker in Chinese has as a cognitive correlate the inability or unwillingness of Chinese speakers to think counterfactually, elicited a would-be replication and refutation from Terry Kit-Fong Au. Capitalizing on Au's radical modifications of the original experimental design, Bloom was able to turn Au's refutation into a strengthening of his own position. In the present st…
Paraphrasing
Implicit Causality in Language
Using English verbs naming interactions between persons Brown and Fish (1983) show that speakers apportion causality unequally between interactants. Action verbs draw greater causal weight to Agent than to Patient arguments while state verbs draw greater weight to Stimulus than to Experiencer arguments. Verbs frequently have derived adjectives naming an attribute of one of the arguments. The direction of causality attribution in adjectives predic…
Towards an Empirical Model of Language Acquisition
Recent research in primary language acquisition can be subdivided into two schools. Under the influence of the highly mentalistic theory of language known as Transformational Generative Grammar, an innate language acquisition device was postulated, and the first school tried to establish what the structure of this device might be on the evidence of its output, i.e. early child grammars. Subsequently a new school arose which concentrated on mother…
Mothers' speech in three social classes
Mommy linguist
Women farm workers on South African deciduous fruit farms
Mothers' speech in three social classes
The Conceptualization of Farm Family Business
Women on South African Farms
This paper explores the role being played by two prominent women groupings in empowering farm women on South African fruit and wine farms. By focusing their efforts on farm wives and women farm workers, the Cape Women's Forum has embarked on a process of empowering farm women across race and class divisions. This approach contrasts with that of the other group - the Women on Farms Project - in that the latter facilitates the empowerment of women …
Mommy linguist
Mommy linguist
Mothers' speech in three social classes
Towards an Empirical Model of Language Acquisition
Recent research in primary language acquisition can be subdivided into two schools. Under the influence of the highly mentalistic theory of language known as Transformational Generative Grammar, an innate language acquisition device was postulated, and the first school tried to establish what the structure of this device might be on the evidence of its output, i.e. early child grammars. Subsequently a new school arose which concentrated on mother…
Implicit Causality in Language
Using English verbs naming interactions between persons Brown and Fish (1983) show that speakers apportion causality unequally between interactants. Action verbs draw greater causal weight to Agent than to Patient arguments while state verbs draw greater weight to Stimulus than to Experiencer arguments. Verbs frequently have derived adjectives naming an attribute of one of the arguments. The direction of causality attribution in adjectives predic…
Paraphrasing
Language and Thought
Work by Alfred Bloom, suggesting that the lack of a distinct counterfactual marker in Chinese has as a cognitive correlate the inability or unwillingness of Chinese speakers to think counterfactually, elicited a would-be replication and refutation from Terry Kit-Fong Au. Capitalizing on Au's radical modifications of the original experimental design, Bloom was able to turn Au's refutation into a strengthening of his own position. In the present st…
Women farm workers on South African deciduous fruit farms
The Conceptualization of Farm Family Business
Women on South African Farms
This paper explores the role being played by two prominent women groupings in empowering farm women on South African fruit and wine farms. By focusing their efforts on farm wives and women farm workers, the Cape Women's Forum has embarked on a process of empowering farm women across race and class divisions. This approach contrasts with that of the other group - the Women on Farms Project - in that the latter facilitates the empowerment of women …
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)