Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party

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dc.contributor.authorAntia, Bassey E.
dc.contributor.authorHendricks, Tamsyn
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-16T13:53:19Z
dc.date.available2020-08-16T13:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionIn pressen_US
dc.description.abstractCorpus analysis has become established as an approach to the study of language description or for applied pursuits in language teaching, terminology, and so on. However, because of the social indexicalities of language use, corpora can also inform studies of social phenomena. This chapter draws on social semiotics to argue that, in the analysis of social phenomena, meanings that are socially significant can be read not only from what is said in corpora, but also from a range of other resources, such as names of persons and places as well as language choices made in texts. This chapter thus uses two heuristics, onomastics and discursive mono-/multilingualism, to query a diachronic corpus associated with a South African political party for evidence of whether or not the party has over time become more inclusive, contrary to its discursive positioning by a rival party as an untransformed organisation. The analysis shows evidence of the party opening up to diversity in terms of race, gender, geography, and language choice, but the finding raises the question of the relationship between semiotic evidence and reality.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAntia, B.E. & Hendricks, T. (2019). Semiotic Signature of Transformation in a Diachronic Corpus of a South African Political Party. In: Esimaje, A., Gut, U. & Antia, B.E. (editors). Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins, 374 � 399.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9.78903E+12
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1075/scl.88
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/5247
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBenjaminsen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical partyen_US
dc.subjectSemioticsen_US
dc.subjectSocial semioticsen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.titleSemiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political partyen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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