Rosalie Finlayson
Biographic Data
| ID | 84609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalie Finlayson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Finlayson |
| SIGNATURE | FINLAYSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Jam or cheese? The challenges of a national broadcaster in a multilingual context
In contrast to commercial broadcasters, national broadcasters are partly subsidised by taxpayers’ money and therefore have a mandate to serve their particular society within the context of the current political system. In democratic societies these mandates typically have to balance out the following challenges: A limited number of available television channels and radio stations Equity in terms of audience home language/language variety Audience…
‘Make una listen o…’ Codeswitching as a means of accommodation among the Ẹdo-speaking people of Nigeria
This article examines the language situation in the Ẹdo state of Nigeria, with particular reference to how the people accommodate their interlocutors by adapting their speech through codeswitching. Examples gathered from empirical research are analysed and conclusions drawn regarding the reasons why and when the people, in particular the Binis, codeswitch to accommodate those with whom they speak. Like most of Nigeria, the Ẹdo state has been grea…
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
The Intellectualisation of the Indigenous Languages of South Africa: Challenges and Prospects
There is growing consensus among language planning scholars that, in developing languages such as those of Africa, there is a need for a deliberate effort to effectuate and accelerate the process of language intellectualisation. Intellectualisation of the African languages should be seen within the context of national development initiatives. This paper examines the situation in South Africa where the government is obliged by the Constitution to …
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
The Linguistic Implications of the Xhosa Initiation Schools
Two initiation schools among the Xhosa, one for boys and the other for girls, form part of the range of traditions found within the Xhosa-speaking communities of South Africa. The various dimensions of the initiation process include different features with regard to the physiological, sociological, contextual, spatial and physical as well as the linguistic components of the initiation process. This paper concentrates on the linguistic implication…
Orderly mixing and accommodation in South African codeswitching
Mixed Language,' a characteristic pattern of language use among African township residents in South Africa, may well include words or full constituents from several languages. However, from both a structural and a social perspective, such speech has a systematic nature. In reference to grammatical structure, within any CP (projection of COMP) showing codeswitching, only one language (the Matrix Language) provides the grammatical frame in the data…
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi
1984). The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 137-146
Orderly mixing and accommodation in South African codeswitching
Mixed Language,' a characteristic pattern of language use among African township residents in South Africa, may well include words or full constituents from several languages. However, from both a structural and a social perspective, such speech has a systematic nature. In reference to grammatical structure, within any CP (projection of COMP) showing codeswitching, only one language (the Matrix Language) provides the grammatical frame in the data…
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi
1984). The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 137-146
The Intellectualisation of the Indigenous Languages of South Africa: Challenges and Prospects
There is growing consensus among language planning scholars that, in developing languages such as those of Africa, there is a need for a deliberate effort to effectuate and accelerate the process of language intellectualisation. Intellectualisation of the African languages should be seen within the context of national development initiatives. This paper examines the situation in South Africa where the government is obliged by the Constitution to …
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi
1984). The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 137-146
We just mix: Code switching in a South African township
This study concentrates on the interaction between languages with similar morphological and syntactic structures. It will show that code switching between morphosyntactically similar languages ofequal social function has certain implicationsfor the matrix language-frame modelfor code switching which has been developed by Myers-Scotton (1993b). The two languages under scrutiny here are Southern Sotho and Tswana, two very closely related and functi…
The Linguistic Implications of the Xhosa Initiation Schools
Two initiation schools among the Xhosa, one for boys and the other for girls, form part of the range of traditions found within the Xhosa-speaking communities of South Africa. The various dimensions of the initiation process include different features with regard to the physiological, sociological, contextual, spatial and physical as well as the linguistic components of the initiation process. This paper concentrates on the linguistic implication…
Orderly mixing and accommodation in South African codeswitching
Mixed Language,' a characteristic pattern of language use among African township residents in South Africa, may well include words or full constituents from several languages. However, from both a structural and a social perspective, such speech has a systematic nature. In reference to grammatical structure, within any CP (projection of COMP) showing codeswitching, only one language (the Matrix Language) provides the grammatical frame in the data…
L'M a Cleva: The linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment
Article "l'm a cleva!": the linguistic makeup of identity in a South African urban environment was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 144)
The Intellectualisation of the Indigenous Languages of South Africa: Challenges and Prospects
There is growing consensus among language planning scholars that, in developing languages such as those of Africa, there is a need for a deliberate effort to effectuate and accelerate the process of language intellectualisation. Intellectualisation of the African languages should be seen within the context of national development initiatives. This paper examines the situation in South Africa where the government is obliged by the Constitution to …
What turns you on: An Exploration of Urban South African Xhosa and Zulu Youth Texts
The status of the current standard African languages has been seriously undermined by factors such as the association of the standardisation process with colonial and neo-colonial structures, the lack of function of the standards and the rise of high status non-standard urban varieties. This paper describes the process leading to and some interesting outcomes drawn from a pilot literary competition whose aim, apart from encouraging urban youth to…
Jam or cheese? The challenges of a national broadcaster in a multilingual context
In contrast to commercial broadcasters, national broadcasters are partly subsidised by taxpayers’ money and therefore have a mandate to serve their particular society within the context of the current political system. In democratic societies these mandates typically have to balance out the following challenges: A limited number of available television channels and radio stations Equity in terms of audience home language/language variety Audience…
‘Make una listen o…’ Codeswitching as a means of accommodation among the Ẹdo-speaking people of Nigeria
This article examines the language situation in the Ẹdo state of Nigeria, with particular reference to how the people accommodate their interlocutors by adapting their speech through codeswitching. Examples gathered from empirical research are analysed and conclusions drawn regarding the reasons why and when the people, in particular the Binis, codeswitch to accommodate those with whom they speak. Like most of Nigeria, the Ẹdo state has been grea…
Sociology (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works)