Anne-Marie Beukes
Biographic Data
| ID | 8944841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne-Marie Beukes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne-Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Beukes |
| SIGNATURE | BEUKES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0121-8442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When language revitalisation transcends linguistic issues
This article presents findings from research on Tonga language revitalisation. Tonga is a formerly marginalised indigenous language spoken in north-western Zimbabwe. It is part of Zimbabwe’s linguistic ecology comprising 16 officially recognised languages that exist in a polyglossic situation. The Tonga community recently embarked on a bottom-up language planning approach to revitalise their language, contrary to the traditional macro-level langu…
‘The greasy pole of dehumanisation’
The study attempts a preliminary investigation of the nexus between language and violence in democratic South Africa. The backdrop for the study is the recent spiral of violence in all its forms and guises that keeps growing and threatens to erode the political and legal gains of the post-apartheid era, and the discourses of violence that characterise public life in South Africa. The basic tenet of the study is that South Africa's multilingual di…
Language policy implementation in South Africa
No abstract available
‘Opening the doors of education’
This study explores language policy and management at one of South Africa's historically Afrikaans-medium universities, the University of Johannesburg. The backdrop for the investigation is the changed landscape of higher education and the National Plan for Higher Education's provision that a multilingual environment be created in which all South African languages are developed as academic/scientific languages. The University of Johannesburg has …
Language policy incongruity and African languages in postapartheid South Africa
This study explores some of the reasons why, in spite of the exemplary fashion in which democratic South Africa responded to the constitutional imperatives pertaining to language, policy implementation has been slow. It is argued that language policy and planning in South Africa have become trapped in a gap between 'intention' and 'performance'. This study investigates the performance of the Pan South African Language Board, as government's statu…
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Language policy incongruity and African languages in postapartheid South Africa
This study explores some of the reasons why, in spite of the exemplary fashion in which democratic South Africa responded to the constitutional imperatives pertaining to language, policy implementation has been slow. It is argued that language policy and planning in South Africa have become trapped in a gap between 'intention' and 'performance'. This study investigates the performance of the Pan South African Language Board, as government's statu…
‘Opening the doors of education’
This study explores language policy and management at one of South Africa's historically Afrikaans-medium universities, the University of Johannesburg. The backdrop for the investigation is the changed landscape of higher education and the National Plan for Higher Education's provision that a multilingual environment be created in which all South African languages are developed as academic/scientific languages. The University of Johannesburg has …
‘The greasy pole of dehumanisation’
The study attempts a preliminary investigation of the nexus between language and violence in democratic South Africa. The backdrop for the study is the recent spiral of violence in all its forms and guises that keeps growing and threatens to erode the political and legal gains of the post-apartheid era, and the discourses of violence that characterise public life in South Africa. The basic tenet of the study is that South Africa's multilingual di…
Language policy implementation in South Africa
No abstract available
When language revitalisation transcends linguistic issues
This article presents findings from research on Tonga language revitalisation. Tonga is a formerly marginalised indigenous language spoken in north-western Zimbabwe. It is part of Zimbabwe’s linguistic ecology comprising 16 officially recognised languages that exist in a polyglossic situation. The Tonga community recently embarked on a bottom-up language planning approach to revitalise their language, contrary to the traditional macro-level langu…
Linguistics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Language planning (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Democracy (2 works)