Stephanie Rudwick

Rudwick, Stephanie 2017 Compulsory African language learning at a South African university: An exploration of macro- and micro dynamics Language Problems and Language Planning 41:2, pp. 115–135 | Article

While many universities in the world are making provisions to include the English language in their institutional structure, the South African University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is opposing the hegemony of English in its institution. The University has launched a language policy and planning… read more

Rudwick, Stephanie 2015 To be or not to be ‘African’: Discursive race politics in a South African online forum Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 67–85 | Article

Since 1994, the term ‘African’ has increasingly become a contested reference label in post-apartheid South Africa, as numerous ‘white’ South Africans have appropriated it in self-reference, much to the disapproval of a significant number of ‘black’ people. In this chapter I examine what it means to… read more

Rudwick, Stephanie 2013 Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 233–251 | Article

This paper addresses how young Zulu women choose two different isiZulu varieties, isiTsotsi and isiHlonipho, in order to construct ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ femininities in South Africa. Based on semi-ethnographic data gathered over a period of six years (2004–2010), the paper explores how… read more

Rudwick, Stephanie 2011 Zulu Varietäten als Ausdruck unterschiedlicher Kulturansprüche und Geschlechterverhältnisse im heutigen Südafrika Archív Orientální 79:1, pp. 27–45 | Article

While there are several comprehensive studies on “language and ethnicity” (Gudykunst 1988, Dow 1991, Fishman 2001, Joseph 2004) there is only one recent comprehensive study (Fought 2006) which focuses on how variation within a language is signiﬁcant in the expression of ethnic identity. This study… read more

Rudwick, Stephanie 2010 “Coconut” Notes: Discursive Constructions of Race Identity in South Africa Archív Orientální 78:1, pp. 55–73 | Article

This study examines how South Africans construct and negotiate racial identities in written commentaries via a forum of the Mail@Guardian website Thought Leader in response to a blog by Ndumiso Ngcobo entitled “I’m a coconut and I am proud of it – say it with me.” Ngcobo’s ironic opinion piece,… read more

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