Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change
Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 33] 2013. xi, 331 pp.
Sibonile Edith Ellece
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sibonile Edith Ellece plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2013 Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology? Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2013 Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis? Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 149–176 | Article
In this chapter I explore how men are constructed in Botswana contemporary music. I use critical discourse analysis
as a conceptual framework and, at the analytical level, employ Halliday’s (1985) idea of a clause as representation and
examine how characters in the songs are represented in terms… read more