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Publication details [#57763]

Black, Steven P. 2013. Stigma and ideological constructions of the foreign: Facing HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Language in Society 42 (5) : 481–502.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | ideology | language use | medical language | prejudice

Language as a subject

English | isiZulu

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores how members of a Zulu choir that acts a HIV support group and AIDS activist organization, creatively integrates English medical terminology into isiZulu discourse as a substitute to the language of slur.