South Africa has just entered a new era of multicultural cooperation. But until now it has been dominated by a white, Afrikaner minority, which must try to give up its deep-rooted ideology. This investigation looks into this ideology by means of the dominant metaphors used in four major newspapers. The study concludes that the metaphors Afrikaners live by are not those of apartheid, but rather those of a world of rural self-containment reflecting the 19th century rather than the 20th century experiences of the organisation of life, work, and society.
| ISBN: | 9783631478646 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1994 |
| Author: | René Dirven |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Edition an imprint of Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wiss |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 193 pages |
| Series: | Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft : Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture |
| Genres: |
Language: reference and general Sociolinguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Lexicography Literary studies: general |