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Introduction
Stephan Meyer's present interest is in academic discourse and multilingualism. His earlier work was on narrative identity and on care.
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June 2003 - present
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April 2000 - December 2005
January 2000 - December 2003
January 1986 - December 1988
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Publications (26)
Abstract: In health communication, multilingual linguistic landscapes can contribute
to positive health outcomes. This study explored the rare use in the public sphere of
constellations of non- official languages (alternative multilingualisms), namely in an
official, multilingual, multimodal poster campaign to regain trust in an accident and
emerge...
The assumption that students at higher education institutions will automatically maintain and/or acquire communicative competence in the languages they need for their studies, their work, and to participate in society is increasingly viewed with scepticism. Instead, there is growing acceptance that systematic institutional promotion of these skills...
Contributor to Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications_Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication
How do written and other signs shape our educational spaces and practices; and how, in turn, are these written and other signs shaped by the educational spaces and practices they inhabit? Building on inquiries into the linguistic landscapes of public spaces, this volume addresses these questions and thereby further advances the educational turn in...
Edited Volume on Translanguaging as Everyday Practice
Multilingual signs in the linguistic landscape raise several questions about everyday translingual practices. We addressed the questions: What translingual practices do recipients mobilise to negotiate the linguistic meanings of unofficial multilingual signs that constitute the linguistic landscape of a commercial and residential suburb (Kleinbasel...
This article addresses the questions: why is the development of conversational competence important within higher education? And how might this goal be pursued? We offer answers that may aid a broad range of stakeholders (language learners, course designers, lecturers, language development managers, and policy makers) in thinking through these issu...
Abstract Societies – such as Switzerland – that address the issue of multilingualism by officially recognising national languages cannot avoid the remaining question: what about the non-official languages? Our contribution addresses this question by exploring one site where such non-official languages attain rare visibility in the public sphere, na...
Novice writers and writing instructors in academic and professional settings often pine for guides that will deliver definitive rules which offer certitude. Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century does so – to a large extent. That The Sense of Style cannot find rules in reason for everything is...
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The relationships between the internationalisation of higher education and language are still poorly understood. We foreground the perspective of students in order to advance our understanding of these interrelations in the context of the consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Accordingly, we propose gathering answers to the qu...
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Interviewees: Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Valentine Cascarino, Vanitha Chetty, Wilfred Cibane, Greig Coetzee, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Faber, David Goldblatt, Stephen Gray, Dorian Haarhoff, Rayda Jacobs, Elsa Joubert, K. Limakatso Kendall, Ester Lee, Doris Lessing, Sindiwe...
Biography 24.3 (2001) 639-644
In this commendable, broad canvas of colonial and postcolonial women's autobiography, Gillian Whitlock invites the reader to participate in a "process of connected reading" (203), which consists of "a search for contiguities" and "rogue connections" (204). Consequently, texts are brought together in ways which transgre...
The military intervention of the German Federal Army means the end of a long period of restraint which had imprinted itself on the civil traits of the postwar German mentality. War is here. Of course, the Allied "air strikes" are supposed to be something different from a war of the traditional type. In fact, the "surgical precision" of the air stri...
