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- ItemMoet Afrikaans geherstandaardiseer word(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-12) Odendaal, GerdaAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dit word gedoen deur eerstens ’n oorsig te gee oor die redes waarom Standaardafrikaans veral sedert die 1980’s nie as verteenwoordigend van die totale Afrikaanse spraakgemeenskap beskou word nie. Drie redes word hiervoor aangevoer, waaronder die oormatige vernederlandsing van Afrikaans tydens standaardisering, die miskenning van die Engelse invloed op Afrikaans deur middel van anglisismejag, en die miskenning en uitsluiting van ander variëteite van Afrikaans gedurende die standaardiseringsproses
- ItemRestandardisation defined as democratising language planning(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2013) Odendaal, GerdaThe 1980s and 1990s saw several international political and social developments that gave rise to the ideology of democracy, which focuses on issues such as equal human rights and human dignity. Furthermore, globalisation gave rise to a worldwide ethnic renaissance with a focus on the nurturing of diversity. These developments led to the increased valuing and validation of variation, including language variation. Given this democratisation of the world, the relevance of standard languages, which are undeniably ideological in nature, is increasingly being questioned. Does a language variety which only serves the economic, social and political elite of a speech community still have a role to play in a democratic society? Or should we accept that this will inevitably lead to the destandardisation of languages? These are the questions that gave rise to discussions on the restandardisation of languages. The literature is, however, not yet clear on what is meant by restandardisation, as no unambiguous definition of this term exists as of yet. The aim of this paper is to give a clearer understanding of what restandardisation entails by discussing relevant literature on restandardisation, standardisation, destandardisation and other aspects of language planning in order to provide an unambiguous definition of restandardisation. By specifying its language planning and democratic properties, this paper aims to define restandardisation as democratising language planning, i.e. a language planning activity with the ability to transform the standard language in order to make it a democratic tool of communication that serves the entire speech community and in which all the speakers of the different varieties of a language are represented.
- ItemDie rol van die US se Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands in die ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse leksikografie : die Nederlands-Afrikaans-stryd gedurende die aanvangsjare(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016-03) Odendaal, GerdaDie studie stel ondersoek in na die rol van die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands in die ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse leksikografie te midde van 'n fel Nederlands-Afrikaans-stryd in die wordingsjare van die Afrikaanse leksikografie. Daar word eerstens gefokus op die aanvang van die Afrikaanse leksikografie aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch deur die publikasie van Mansvelt se Idioticon. Vervolgens word 'n oorsig gegee oor die spellingstryd tussen die voorstanders van Nederlands, met W.J. Viljoen aan die stuur, en die voorstanders van Afrikaans, onder leiding van J.J. Smith, beide dosente aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch, wat geheers het in die tydperk waarin hierdie universiteit hom as 'n Afrikaanse universiteit onderskei het. Ten slotte word gedui op die voortgesette Nederlands-Afrikaans-stryd soos wat dit in die daaropvolgende jare in die woordeboek vir spesiale doeleindes, die Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls, tot uitdrukking gebring is en die blywende invloed wat die stryd op die Afrikaanse spelling gehad het.
- ItemDie rol van die US se departement Afrikaans en Nederlands in die ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse leksikografie onder Nederlandse invloed : verklarende standaardwoordeboeke(Bureau of the WAT, 2016) Odendaal, GerdaThis article investigates the role of Stellenbosch University's Department of Afrikaans and Dutch in the development of Afrikaans lexicography through their involvement in two standard descriptive dictionaries, the Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal en Nasionale Woordeboek. This is done against the background of the influence of Dutch on Afrikaans lexicography. The influence of Dutch on both the macro- and microstructures of these dictionaries are investigated. A gradual movement away from Dutch influence and the contribution of these dictionaries to the development of Afrikaans lexicography are also indicated. When corresponding editions of the two dictionaries are compared, Nasionale Woordeboek seems to show less Dutch influence than Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. However, since the beginning of the 1990s (after no new editions Nasionale Woordeboek appeared) Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal has slowly but surely started to free itself from Dutch influence. The result of this is that the most recent edition of the Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal gives evidence of Afrikaans as an independent language that no longer needs to rely on Dutch.