Communicating About Sexual Violence on Campus: A University Case Study

South African universities are in the midst of highly visible struggles around decolonisation. Over the past two years, these struggles have  foregrounded racialised, classed, gendered and other forms of exclusion. These are being challenged both by black academic staff as well as by black students. Most visibly and deeply connected, have been the challenges to the ways in which universities, as particular types of institutions, have dealt with sexual violence and harassment of its womxn1 students. In this context we ask how the University of Cape Town, as one particular case study formally communicates about sexual violence on its campus. In an archival analysis of the university’s public communications on sexual violence during 2015 and 2016, we ask what kinds of messages it conveys about violence, victims and perpetrators. We are interested in the ways in which the university positions itself in relation to the issue of sexual violence. The paper finds that the university’s institutional discourse on sexual violence produces and reproduces some of the same discourses on sexual violence in both the public and media more broadly

Expository epistles on African psychology | ‘St. Ratele, ora pro nobis’ or ‘Yiza nebhanti phaya erumini

Ratele, K. (2019). The world looks like this from here: Thoughts on African psychology. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Paperback 248 pages.ISBN-10: 177614390

The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa : a corpus-driven study

CITATION: Andrason, A. & Matutu, H. 2019. The syntax of interjections in isiXhosa: A corpus-driven study. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 58:1-16. doi:10.5842/58-0-833The original publication is available at https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pubThis paper examines the syntactic properties of interjections in isiXhosa and their compliance with the interjectional prototype and its extra-systematicity as postulated in linguistic typology. By reviewing nearly two thousand uses of interjections in the comic genre, the authors conclude the following: in its integrity, the category of interjections is internally complex and diversified, containing members with varying degrees of canonicity and extra-systematicity. Although in various uses interjections comply with the interjectional prototype, and being extra-systematic in many others, their canonicity and extra-systematicity are significantly lower.https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/833Publisher’s versio