Ralph D. Adendorff

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ralph D. Adendorff plays a role.

Articles

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… read more
Siebörger, Ian and Ralph D. Adendorff 2015 Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South AfricaSinging, 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
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