Ralph D. Adendorff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ralph D. Adendorff plays a role.
Articles
We’re talking about semantics here: Axiological condensation in the South African parliament Functions of Language 24:2, pp. 196–233 | Article
2017 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
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
2015 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
Ethnographic Evidence of the Social Meaning of Fanakalo in South Africa Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
1993 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