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Title Singing, speaking and writing politics : South African political discourses / edited by Mirjana N. Dedaic.

Publication Info. Philadephia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (259 pages)
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Series Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; volume 65
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 65.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Politics and discourse in South Africa / Mirjana N. Dedaic and Sally Hunt -- Mandela speaks to the nation : The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience / Mirjana N. Dedaic -- Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa / Ian Sieborger and Ralph Adendorff -- To be or not to be "African" : Discursive race politics in a South African online forum / Stephanie Rudwick -- De- and recontextualising xenophobia : discursive representations of non-nationals in the tabloid Daily Sun during attacks on immigrants in April -May 2008 / Carla Els -- "Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease" : Contesting dominant migrant discourse through opposing metaphors / Leigh Crymble -- From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers : Changing representations of gay and lesbian identities in South Africa / Tracey Lee McCormick and Tommaso M. Milani -- "Mother of the nation" : Representations of womanhood in the South African media / Sally Hunt -- Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state / Claudia Ortu -- Emzabalazweni : Singing the language of struggle, past and present / Janet Cherry.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Political culture -- South Africa.
Social change -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dedaic, Mirjana N., 1958- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Singing, speaking and writing politics : South African political discourses. Philadephia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] vi, 251 pages ; 25 cm. Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; volume 65 9789027206565
ISBN 9789027206565 (hb : alk. paper)
9789027267863 (e-book)

 
    
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