Ralph D. Adendorff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ralph D. Adendorff plays a role.
Articles
2017 We’re talking about semantics here: Axiological condensation in the South African parliament Functions of Language 24:2, pp. 196–233 | Article
This article describes how procedural knowledge is produced in a meeting of the South African parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport, using concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Members of this committee argue over whether or not to amend a… read more
2015 Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses, Dedaić, Mirjana N. (ed.), pp. 43–66 | Article
We investigate a parliamentary committee meeting overseeing a state-owned entity, in order to track the processes of knowledge production that occur in parliamentary oversight. The entity’s representatives use “epistemological condensation” (Maton 2014: 130) to present the information they give to… read more
1993 Ethnographic Evidence of the Social Meaning of Fanakalo in South Africa Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
The social meaning of Fanakalo (F) and the social motivation for using it in South Africa are the focus of this article. Ethnographic evidence assembled from a range of written sources reveals that largely unfavorable connotations are associated with F. On the strength of this data, the contextual… read more