Stanley G.M. Ridge
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stanley G.M. Ridge plays a role.
2009 Translating against the grain: Negotiation of meaning in the colonial trial of chief Langalibalele and its aftermath Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond, Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.), pp. 195–212 | Article
Translation and interpreting are always socially embedded practices. They present as practices of mediation, negotiating meaning between languages and discursive forms and cultures. Strategies involved are in a continuum from defamiliarisation to domestication: from deliberately translating so as… read more
2004 Language planning in a rapidly changing multilingual society: The case of English in South Africa South Africa, Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. and Timothy Reagan (eds.), pp. 199–215 | Article
2003 “I want to be like a human again”: Morbidity and retained ability in an Alzheimer sufferer Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), pp. 149–169 | Article
The article undertakes an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary study of the language produced over an extended period by an ageing South African woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. It does so against the background of the medical and legal records of the dementing person’s condition… read more
2000 Mixed Motives: Ideological Elements in the Support for English in South Africa Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English, Ricento, Thomas (ed.), pp. 151–172 | Chapter