Marcelyn Oostendorp
Biographic Data
| ID | 2068282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelyn Oostendorp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Oostendorp |
| SIGNATURE | OOSTENDORP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3493-1167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chronicling chronotopes
Queering the norm, norming the queer
This article centres multilingualism in relation to gender, sexuality, culture, and race, presenting the narrative of one participant, Samson, who self-identifies as a black, queer, man and refers to several linguistic varieties that he has some proficiency in. The narrative emerged from an interview conducted in which Samson discussed his language portrait, a multimodal biographical method. Thematic analysis was used as a starting point in inter…
First language primacy in multilingualism and emotion research
The interaction between multilingualism and emotions has so far mostly been researched in Northern contexts. The findings obtained suggest that the first language is typically preferred for emotional and mental activities (i.e. ‘first language primacy’). In this article, we extend this area of investigation to Africa. We use the Bilingualism and Emotions Questionnaire to probe first language primacy in South Africa, employing a novel analytical a…
Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press
This exploratory study provides an overview of prominent themes pertaining to portrayals of sign languages (SLs) and Deaf people in the South African press (2011–2019), as well as an analysis of a subset of articles to illustrate the discursive constructions of each of the prominent ideological framings. The findings of the paper suggest that many ways of representing South African Sign Language (SASL) and their users align with international tre…
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics
This special issue responds to an increasing interest in decolonial and Southern thinking in applied linguistics. In this Introduction, we first discuss some basic historical facts about colonization, and we highlight some key concepts. We then present the six contributions in the special issue. Three contributions compellingly expose the pervasiveness of coloniality and give reason to doubt that it can ever be overcome; the other three contribut…
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics
The discourse of mastery is prominent in applied linguistics. The idea of mastery, however, does not remain only on the discourse level: curricula and policies are meant to be implemented, and therefore mastery and all that is associated with it (near perfection, dominance over something, etc.) is also practiced. In this paper, I argue that we might survive mastery by recuperating other ways of being, thinking, and learning. By drawing on example…
Undoing Competence – A Challenge From the South
The more applied areas of linguistics are finally having to confront the colonial foundations of the discipline. Acknowledging the inherent colonial roots in all aspects of knowledge production has not been easy for a discipline that has prided itself on liberal values. Flores and Rosa's keynote article is part of this ongoing process to undo/survive the colonial inheritance of (applied) linguistics. As such, the article is greatly welcomed espec…
Raced Repertoires
In this article, the central argument is that research on the semiotic repertoire should also focus on how repertoires are racialized, and race is evoked through the semiotic repertoire. The article uses data from the South African educational context to advance a position in which semiotic repertoires simultaneously give and restrict access, evoke evaluation and construct identities in particular ways because of their entanglement with (racializ…
Linguistic repertoire
Linguistic repertoire is regarded as one of the foundational concepts of sociolinguistics but despite its prominence during the early years of the discipline, it is commonly believed that for decades scant theoretical development on repertoire occurred. This situation is seen to change in the early 2000s when several (Northern) researchers increasingly advocated that linguistic repertoire could be more productive to theorize contemporary communic…
Extending resemiotisation
The present article offers a critical appraisal of resemiotisation through the investigation of a controversial comment made by South African president, Jacob Zuma. The comment (that Jacob Zuma took a shower to minimise his risk of contracting HIV/AIDS) was made during a rape trial in 2006. Over a period of eight years, this comment has been continually recontextualised into different modes, and has served different functions. This article invest…
Tensions, ambivalence, and contradiction
Recently there has been an increased focus on narratives produced within or about the workplace. A number of different analytical approaches to narrative exist and there has been quite a vigorous debate between researchers interested in life stories (or so-called big stories) and those researchers proposing an increased focus on small stories. This paper will use small story analysis (SSA) to examine workplace identity in discourses on organizati…
The Multimodal Construction of the Identity of Politicians
This paper will use the theoretical concepts of ‘intertextuality’, ‘interdiscursivity’ and ‘resemiotization’ to analyse four media texts on South African president, Jacob Zuma. The aims of the paper are, first, to analyse the role that intertextual references play in the construction of the identity of public figures. Second, the paper investigates the semiotic affordances of the visual and linguistic mode by tracing how previous discourses and t…
Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect
Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion \nevent construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more \nprone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages (e.g., \nvon Stutterheim and Carroll 2011). In the present study, we test this hypothesis \nby extending this line of inquiry to Afrikaans, a non-aspect language which \nis previously unexplored in this regard. Motion endpoint behav…
Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect
Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion \nevent construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more \nprone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages (e.g., \nvon Stutterheim and Carroll 2011). In the present study, we test this hypothesis \nby extending this line of inquiry to Afrikaans, a non-aspect language which \nis previously unexplored in this regard. Motion endpoint behav…
The Multimodal Construction of the Identity of Politicians
This paper will use the theoretical concepts of ‘intertextuality’, ‘interdiscursivity’ and ‘resemiotization’ to analyse four media texts on South African president, Jacob Zuma. The aims of the paper are, first, to analyse the role that intertextual references play in the construction of the identity of public figures. Second, the paper investigates the semiotic affordances of the visual and linguistic mode by tracing how previous discourses and t…
Extending resemiotisation
The present article offers a critical appraisal of resemiotisation through the investigation of a controversial comment made by South African president, Jacob Zuma. The comment (that Jacob Zuma took a shower to minimise his risk of contracting HIV/AIDS) was made during a rape trial in 2006. Over a period of eight years, this comment has been continually recontextualised into different modes, and has served different functions. This article invest…
Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect
Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion \nevent construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more \nprone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages (e.g., \nvon Stutterheim and Carroll 2011). In the present study, we test this hypothesis \nby extending this line of inquiry to Afrikaans, a non-aspect language which \nis previously unexplored in this regard. Motion endpoint behav…
Tensions, ambivalence, and contradiction
Recently there has been an increased focus on narratives produced within or about the workplace. A number of different analytical approaches to narrative exist and there has been quite a vigorous debate between researchers interested in life stories (or so-called big stories) and those researchers proposing an increased focus on small stories. This paper will use small story analysis (SSA) to examine workplace identity in discourses on organizati…
The Multimodal Construction of the Identity of Politicians
This paper will use the theoretical concepts of ‘intertextuality’, ‘interdiscursivity’ and ‘resemiotization’ to analyse four media texts on South African president, Jacob Zuma. The aims of the paper are, first, to analyse the role that intertextual references play in the construction of the identity of public figures. Second, the paper investigates the semiotic affordances of the visual and linguistic mode by tracing how previous discourses and t…
Extending resemiotisation
The present article offers a critical appraisal of resemiotisation through the investigation of a controversial comment made by South African president, Jacob Zuma. The comment (that Jacob Zuma took a shower to minimise his risk of contracting HIV/AIDS) was made during a rape trial in 2006. Over a period of eight years, this comment has been continually recontextualised into different modes, and has served different functions. This article invest…
Raced Repertoires
In this article, the central argument is that research on the semiotic repertoire should also focus on how repertoires are racialized, and race is evoked through the semiotic repertoire. The article uses data from the South African educational context to advance a position in which semiotic repertoires simultaneously give and restrict access, evoke evaluation and construct identities in particular ways because of their entanglement with (racializ…
Linguistic repertoire
Linguistic repertoire is regarded as one of the foundational concepts of sociolinguistics but despite its prominence during the early years of the discipline, it is commonly believed that for decades scant theoretical development on repertoire occurred. This situation is seen to change in the early 2000s when several (Northern) researchers increasingly advocated that linguistic repertoire could be more productive to theorize contemporary communic…
Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics
This special issue responds to an increasing interest in decolonial and Southern thinking in applied linguistics. In this Introduction, we first discuss some basic historical facts about colonization, and we highlight some key concepts. We then present the six contributions in the special issue. Three contributions compellingly expose the pervasiveness of coloniality and give reason to doubt that it can ever be overcome; the other three contribut…
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics
The discourse of mastery is prominent in applied linguistics. The idea of mastery, however, does not remain only on the discourse level: curricula and policies are meant to be implemented, and therefore mastery and all that is associated with it (near perfection, dominance over something, etc.) is also practiced. In this paper, I argue that we might survive mastery by recuperating other ways of being, thinking, and learning. By drawing on example…
Undoing Competence – A Challenge From the South
The more applied areas of linguistics are finally having to confront the colonial foundations of the discipline. Acknowledging the inherent colonial roots in all aspects of knowledge production has not been easy for a discipline that has prided itself on liberal values. Flores and Rosa's keynote article is part of this ongoing process to undo/survive the colonial inheritance of (applied) linguistics. As such, the article is greatly welcomed espec…
Queering the norm, norming the queer
This article centres multilingualism in relation to gender, sexuality, culture, and race, presenting the narrative of one participant, Samson, who self-identifies as a black, queer, man and refers to several linguistic varieties that he has some proficiency in. The narrative emerged from an interview conducted in which Samson discussed his language portrait, a multimodal biographical method. Thematic analysis was used as a starting point in inter…
First language primacy in multilingualism and emotion research
The interaction between multilingualism and emotions has so far mostly been researched in Northern contexts. The findings obtained suggest that the first language is typically preferred for emotional and mental activities (i.e. ‘first language primacy’). In this article, we extend this area of investigation to Africa. We use the Bilingualism and Emotions Questionnaire to probe first language primacy in South Africa, employing a novel analytical a…
Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press
This exploratory study provides an overview of prominent themes pertaining to portrayals of sign languages (SLs) and Deaf people in the South African press (2011–2019), as well as an analysis of a subset of articles to illustrate the discursive constructions of each of the prominent ideological framings. The findings of the paper suggest that many ways of representing South African Sign Language (SASL) and their users align with international tre…
Chronicling chronotopes
Linguistics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)