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A critical inquiry into gender-based language differentiation: the case of isihlonipho in South Africa (Guest lecture, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

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Guest lecture, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), May 31st 2023. This lecture offers to take a look at practices relating to ukuhlonipha and isihlonipho in the South African context. I discuss the construction and circulation of knowledge about ukuhlonipha/isihlonipho and aim to demonstrate how the interpretation of isihlonipho as language-only practices, and also as gendered language practices, can be traced back to historical accounts which shaped exogenous thinking on the subject. Then, I try to offer different perspectives on the subject by also introducing explanations from some unpublished archives (1930–1950) and some interviews from my fieldwork (2022). To conclude I also discuss how gender roles could be performed through isihlonipho language practices.

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hal-04299288 , version 1 (22-11-2023)

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Hermelind Le Doeuff. A critical inquiry into gender-based language differentiation: the case of isihlonipho in South Africa (Guest lecture, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel). 2023. ⟨hal-04299288⟩
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