The new script for this university includes being anti-racist, anti-neoliberal, and affective – whilst a concretely broadened form of Afrikaans grounds it. Critical university studies and James Scott’s notion of transcripts are the central frames through which the article speculates as to what a future form of the Afrikaans university, namely the African-Afrikaans university, could look like. The analysis centres on poems from the debut anthologies of Ashwin Arendse and Veronique Jephtas, namely Swatland (2021) and Soe Rond Ommie Bos (2021) – both of which are written in Kaaps, a non-standardised variant of Afrikaans. This article investigates the ways in which young, Black Afrikaans speakers – the often invisible members of the Afrikaans community – are critiquing and reimagining the hegemonic form of the Afrikaans language and university.

This article serves as an overview of the current state of psycholinguistic research on the topic of language evolution.Īgainst the backdrop of #Rhodesmustfall and calls for the decolonisation of the South African academy, #Afrikaansmustfall arose specifically targeting the continued use of Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning. sapiens) utilizing it, and the emergence of new situational adaptations, as well as new forms and types of human language, demonstrates that language includes an act driven by a communicative goal. The precise nature of language is shaped by the needs of the species (arguably, uniquely H. We proposed that language should be viewed as a multitude of communication techniques that have developed and are developing in response to selective pressure. Theories of language have evolved from a single-modality to multimodal, from human-specific to usage-based and goal-driven. Ongoing emerging language adaptations strive to better fit the present state of the human species. We argued that language does not exist for its own sake, it is one of a multitude of skills that developed to achieve a shared communicative goal, and all its features are reflective of this. With the present paper, we sought to use research findings to illustrate the following thesis: the evolution of language follows the principles of human evolution.

Krotoa-Eva by Trudie Bloem