Publications

Publication details [#56732]

Wankah, Foncha John and Charlyn Dyers. 2012. ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: the discursive construction of ‘the Other’ in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. Language and Intercultural Communication 12 (3) : 230–247.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | marketplace conversation | racism | self-presentation | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study of (the underlying causes of) how two groups of traders in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town- South Africans and Africans from other countries- discursively construct each Other, reveals notable intergroup stereotypes, intra-continental racism and xenophobia.