Afrikaans discursive memories in the #AfrikaansMustFall protest in South Africa 2015-2016
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https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v23i1.25827Keywords:
discourse analysis, Afrikaans, language policies, apartheid, protestAbstract
In this paper, we propose to analyse the discourses found in the tweets accompanying the movement represented by the hashtag #AfrikaansMustFall in order to reflect on the discursive memories (Courtine, 1981) that activate Afrikaans, as well as its relationship with apartheid so that we will be able to understand the magnitude of the claim. To this end, this research uses discourse analysis as its main approach. By pointing out the repetitions and recurrent ideas in the discourses, we seek to show how these ones are in dialogue with traces of earlier constructions (Maldidier, 1992), and connected to events in the recent past. In conclusion, the results show that the construction of the facts, following the study of memories, present two types of memories, one associated with Afrikaner pride and the other one associating Afrikaans with apartheid.
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