Oranjerivierafrikaans, ʼn Argeologiese Genealogie. Deel IV. 1999-2021
Abstract
Dié laaste deel van ʼn vierdelige artikelreeks ondersoek die geskiedenis van die sosiolinguistiek relatief tot Oranjerivierafrikaans, een van die drie hoofdialekkontinuums van Afrikaans, van die periode 1999 tot 2021. Begrond in die linguistiese geskiedskrywing in die breë, en Michel Foucault se argeologiese en genealogiese oriënterings in die besonder, skets die artikeldeel hoe die huidige periode in die intellektuele geskiedenis van Oranjerivierafrikaans as die tydsgees van tekstualiteit opgesom kan word. Die periode sien die hoogbloei van die aandag aan geskrewe tekste – sowel argivale bronne as meer resente skeppende skryfwerk. Hiernaas word die deurentydsgees van romantiese pittigheid, ʼn benadering wat die ganse Afrikaanse sosiolinguistiek deurspek, bespreek. Die optekenings en navorsing van ondere andere Sanet du Plessis, Frank Hendricks, Annél Otto, Elvis Saal, Donovan Lawrence, Carla Luijks, Luan Staphorst, Camilla Christie, Daan Wissing, en Hendrik Theys word bespreek. Hierdeur daag die artikelreeks vier sentrale veronderstellings oor die taalvorm uit, naamlik dat daar ʼn gebrek aan bronne is, dat dit redelik “onsigbaar” is, dat dit as ʼn Swart Afrikaanse taalvorm getipeer kan word, en dat Kaapse Afrikaans, eerder as Oranjerivierafrikaans, as die “oudste” vorm van Afrikaans beskou moet word. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This last part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relative to Orange River Afrikaans, one of Afrikaans’s three main dialect continuas, from the period 1999 to 2021. Grounded in linguistic historiography broadly construed, and Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical orientations specifically, this part of the article sketches how the intellectual history of Orange River Afrikaans in this period can be summarised as the Zeitgeist of textuality. This period sees the height of the study of written texts – of both archival and creative writing. A final discussion focuses on the discourse of “romantic curiosa”, a discourse that has pervaded the study of Orange River Afrikaans since the onset of Afrikaans sociolinguistics. The writings and research of, amongst others, Sanet du Plessis, Frank Hendricks, Annél Otto, Elvis Saal, Donovan Lawrene, Carla Luijks, Luan Staphorst, Camilla Christie, Daan Wissing, and Hendrik Theys are discussed. Through this, the article series challenges four central and dominant presuppositions on Orange River Afrikaans, namely that there are limited sources available relative to it, that it constitutes an “invisible” language form, that it can be typified as an expression of Black Afrikaans, and that Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans), rather than Orange River Afrikaans, should be regarded as the “oldest” form of Afrikaans.Downloads
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