Unisa Press
African Languages Matter
| Author: | Mojapelo & Mafela |
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| Published: | December 12, 2023 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-77646-083-0 |
| Number of pages: | 251 |
| This book is also available in electronic format | |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-77646-093-9 |
About the book
Arican Languages Matter: A festschrift in honour of MS Serudu is a collection of research papers in African languages to honour and celebrate the academic research career of the late Professor Emeritus Maje Stephen Serudu. Contributions were invited from scholars whom he taught and mentored directly and indirectly in his academic career. The contributions reflect his involvement in language development in the areas of modern literature, orature, formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and translation.
About the Authors/Editors
Munzhedzi J. Mafela is an emeritus professor and professor extraordinarius of African Languages at Unisa, where he is also an expert consultant in the research directorate. He is a creative writer who has produced drama, novels, short stories, and poem anthologies.
Mampaka L. Mojapelo is an associate professor at Unisa. She obtained her PhD in African linguistics from Stellenbosch University, specialising in Sesotho sa Leboa. Although she is a grammarian, her work feeds from Prof Serudu’s literature and language preservation influences.
Table of content
Acknowledgement vii
Preface viii
Contributors ix
Abbreviations xii
1 Introduction Mampaka L. Mojapelo and Munzhedzi J. Mafela 1
PART 1 LANGUAGE AND ATTITUDE 14
2 Blacklisted Languages: W(h)ither African Languages Sekgaila Chokoe 15
3 African Languages in the Current Decolonisation Debate: Serious Discourse or Mere Rhetoric Malesela J. Masenya 27
4 Othering among South Africans and Other Communities
Thomas M. Sengani 44
PART 2 LITERATURE AND ORATURE 63
5 Serudu and Xenophobia in Naga ga di Etelane: A Challenge Faced by African Communities
Mokgale Makgopa 64
6 When Men Want, Women can be Beautiful and be Worthwhile Kanakana Y. Ladzani 80
7 Readers As Children's Literature: From the Missionaries to CLS Nyembezi's Era Cynthia D. Ntuli 97
8 Marriage and Social Relations in Some TN Maumela's Creative Works
Munzhedzi J. Mafela 109
9 Images of 'Woman' in Ruth 1:1-18: Selected Northern Sotho Proverbs as Hermeneutical Lenses Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele) 124
10 Serudu and the Preservation of Language and Culture: A Perspective in Koketšatsebo and
Dipheko tša Bagologolo
Matseleng Mabusela 137vi
PART 3 LINGUISTICS AND TRANSLATION 15511 Lexical Expression of Indefiniteness in Northern Sotho Mampaka L. Mojapelo 156
12 Serudu's Translation of Long Walk to Freedom: The Use of Domestication to
Achieve Naturalness of Expression
Francinah M. Kanyane 174
13 Voice in Translation: Insights from Ntuli's Translation of Long Walk to Freedom Rose Masubelele 195
14 Translating isiZulu Traditional Praise Poems of the 18th Century
Manqoba V. Ndlovu 214
Appendix A: Prof MS Serudu 231
Index 232