Singing, speaking and writing politics
Subtitle: South African political discourses
By: edited by Mirjana N. Dedaic
Series: Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 -- volume 65
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Philadephia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027206565
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Discourse analysis; Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics and discourse in South Africa / Mirjana N. Dedaic and Sally Hunt; title: Mandela speaks to the nation : The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience / Mirjana N. Dedaic; title: Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa / Ian Siebörger and Ralph Adendorff; title: To be or not to be "African" : Discursive race politics in a South African online forum / Stephanie Rudwick; title: De- and recontextualising xenophobia : discursive representations of non-nationals in the tabloid Daily Sun during attacks on immigrants in April -May 2008 / Carla Els; title: "Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease" : Contesting dominant migrant discourse through opposing metaphors / Leigh Crymble; title: From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers : Changing representations of gay and lesbian identities in South Africa / Tracey Lee McCormick and Tommaso M. Milani; title: "Mother of the nation" : Representations of womanhood in the South African media / Sally Hunt; title: Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state / Claudia Ortu; title: Emzabalazweni : Singing the language of struggle, past and present / Janet Cherry.