J. C. Steyn’s research while affiliated with University of the Free State and other places

... It should, however, also be noted that the question of Afrikaans and the university space within the South African context should not be read outside of history, meaning the 'events' just listed represent by no means the first moment of reflection relative to Afrikaans and the university. There is, rather, a long tradition of scholarship that address this topic in various ways, as will become clearer as the dissertation progresses (see Steyn 1994, Van Staden 1997, Ntsandeni 1999, Giliomee 2001, Van Coller 2003, Du Plessis 2006, Giliomee and Schlemmer 2006, Greenfield 2010, Nel 2012, Beukes 2015a, Le Cordeur 2015b, Van Nevertheless, these four central reference events can further be contrasted with a protracted debate in Afrikaans, namely the debate on the role and position of different varieties of Afrikaans in relation to Standard Afrikaans on the one hand, and the question of restandardization on the other (see Kotzé 2014, Van Heerden and Kotzé 2018. A central thread that links many of these events, and the debate, is a broader discourse of linguistic human rights on the one hand (see Van der Walt andSteyn 2017, Du Plessis 2018, Keppler commendable. ...

Reference:

Ongehoord: Voices Unaccented; Voices Unharmonized. Afrikaans and South Africa's First Peoples in Discourses of Higher Education Transformation