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- Title
Linguistic Strategies in Post-Apartheid Fiction.
- Authors
Adebiyi, Kazeem
- Abstract
In postcolonial literary scholarship, not only is language generally seen as a signifier of culture and identity, it is also conceived as a tool for inscribing alienation, cultural difference, cultural distance and so on. This is why the idea of using a particular language, often the imperial one, in forging national unity in the post-colony has become the order of the day. Contradicting this position, this paper examines the linguistic strategies deployed in four post-apartheid works of fiction in order to demonstrate their metonymic significance in engendering national and cultural integrations in post-apartheid South Africa. It identifies code-mixing, code-switching, untranslated words and glossing as major linguistic strategies used in the selected works as textual and creative contribution to national integration in post-apartheid South Africa.
- Subjects
LINGUISTICS research; IDIOLECT; POST-apartheid era in literature; FICTION; LITERATURE
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article