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Phil van Schalkwyk completed an MA in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature, Cum Laude, at the PU for CHE. In 2004 he obtained a PhD in General Theory of Literature at the North-West University.

Mainly active in the field of Comparative Literature, his research focuses on rhetorical constructions and relationality in Afrikaans, South African and Dutch prose and poetry, with emphasis on the writings of Eben Venter.

He delivered papers at conferences in South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the USA, and published articles in accredited journals, including Dutch Crossing, Critical Arts, Journal of Humanities, Stilet, Literator, Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, South African Journal of Linguistics. He contributed chapters to books such as: Perspektief en profiel; Verbintenis en venster: die Nederlandstalige letterkunde van aanvang tot hede; Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries (2013); Beyond the Threshold: Explorations of Liminality in Literature (2007); and Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (2013).

He first obtained an NRF rating in 2014, and in 2019 his rating was successfully renewed (C2). In the same year he was awarded the South African Academy’s Esther Greeff prize for a Journal of Humanities article (2017) in which he re-evaluates the novel Wolf, wolf in the context of Eben Venter’s oeuvre.

Prof Van Schalkwyk has been promoter and supervisor at NWU for several successfully completed postgraduate studies. One of his students, Dr Janien Linde, was awarded the Marius Jooste medal for her MA dissertation (Cum Laude, 2014).

From 2017 till present he has been co-editor-in-chief of Literator.

In 2018 and 2019 he was acting director of the Research Unit Languages and Literature in the South African Context, and in June 2021 he was appointed for a term of five years as director of this entity.

He presented his inaugural lecture in October 2021.

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Philip van der Merwe

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:29:20 +0000

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Philip van der Merwe (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the North-West University in South Africa. He teaches German literature and German as a foreign language. His research interests include film studies, literary and film theory, and contemporary literature. He is the co-editor of A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (2022) and has published on the fiction of E.L. Doctorow and Hans-Ulrich Treichel. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Literator and Acta Germanica.

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Tobie van Dyk

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:19:03 +0000

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Linguistics

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Prof. Tobie van Dyk is an extensively published author of applied linguistic work, focusing on academic literacies theory and practice, academic reading and writing development, and in particular academic language ability testing. He is considered an authority in particularly the fields of academic literacies and language testing – all focus areas under the broad theme of language for specific purposes within applied linguistics. Apart from his research, he is also node manager in the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and director in the Inter-institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment (ICELDA). These two entities contribute extensively towards applied linguistic product development, and research and innovation. The former includes development of academic support materials in writing specifically, multilingual resource development such as academic wordlists, tests and educational videos, games that advance multilingualism, and the development of a multi-level, multi-genre, multilingual learner corpus of academic writing. The latter includes a focus on academic articles, academic books and textbooks, as well as postgraduate supervision. Prof. Van Dyk has an extensive local academic network and strong ties to universities in Europe, Canada and the USA.

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Johannes Seema

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:38:48 +0000

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Ngaka Johannes Seema ke Morupedi e moholo Lefapheng la Sekolo sa Dipuo Yunivesithing ya Leboya Bophirima, khemphaseng ya Vanderbijlpark. O na le Lengolo la Bongaka leo a le amohetseng ho tswa Yunivesithing ya Johannesburg. Ka Lengolo leo la hao, bopaki ke hore o itshetlehile dingolweng tsa Maafrika, haholo dingolweng tsa Basotho e leng dingolwa tsa Sesotho. Dingolweng tsena tsa Sesotho, o thahaselletse haholo semelong sa dingolwa jwalo ka ha dingolwa e le seipone sa setjhaba. Thahasello e ntse e le teng ho Diqatjwa tsa Basotho, e leng Neanotaba.

O ile dikhonferenseng tsa barutehi, dikontinenteng tse fapaneng le dinaheng tse fapaneng. O badile dipampiri ka hara naha, kontinenteng ya Afrika mmoho le dinaheng tse mose ho mawatle. Ka ntle ho naheng ya Afrika Borwa, o etetse dinaheng tsa Afrika ho ya bala dipampiri dinaheng tse kang Botswana, Malawi le Namibia. Dinaheng tse mose, o badile dipampiri dinaheng tse kang: Honolulu, Hawaii; New Delhi, India; Czestochowa, Poland le Lisbon, Portugal.

O phatlaladitse diathekele dijenaleng tse hlwauweng ka mokgwa wa akereditheishene. Bophatlalatsi ba hae bo dijenaleng tse ka hara naha le mose. Mothating wa jwale, ke motataisi wa baithuti ba mangolo a Masetase le Bongaka. Ke mohlahlobi diyunivesithing tsa naheng baithuting ba etsang mangolo a Masetase le Bongaka. Ka nqa e nngwe, ke mohlahlobi wa diathekele tse ngoletsweng dijenale tse hlwauweng e le tsa akereditheishene. O thusa le baphatlalatsi ba dibuka ho ba balla dimanyusikeripote. O boetse o thusa matitjhere ka ho a tataisa bakeng sa ho manolla dingolwa, le ho a thusa ka Kerama ya Sesotho.

Ngaka Seema o na le tlhase ya bongodi. O phatlaladitse pokello ya dipale tse kgutshwanyane, e leng Bophelo ke Makelebetlwa. O boetse o phatlaladitse pokello ya dithothokiso eo lebitso la yona e leng Sephallane sa Maphalla. Haufinyane o tla be a phatlalatsa Nobele.

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Philip van der Merwe

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:37:11 +0000

Philip van der Merwe BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/31/2018 - 10:37

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Philip van der Merwe is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages in the Subject Group: German at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. He has published on the fiction of Hans-Ulrich Treichel and E.L. Doctorow. He teaches German literature as well as German as a foreign language. Recent publications include the chapter “The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden” in the book Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film edited by Sabine Planka and Feryal Cubucku and published by Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington (ISBN: 978-1-7936-2588-5 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-7936-2589-2 (eBook)); the article “(Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films” in Journal of Literary Studies. 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2018.1507162 and the chapter „Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011)“ in the book Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche published by Königshausen & Neumann (ISBN: 978-3-8260-6305-3). The title of his PhD dissertation (2011) is Fictional Worlds and Focalisation in Works by Hermann Hesse and E.L. Doctorow.

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Van der Merwe, P. 2020. The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden. In Planka, S. & Cubucku, F. eds. Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film. Washington D.C.: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington. ISBN: 978-1-7936-2588-5 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-7936-2589-2 (eBook).

Van der Merwe, P. 2018. Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011) (In Planka, S. ed. Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche/Berlin: Recent Images of a Metropolis in Narrative Media for Children and Young Adults. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.) www.koenigshausen-neumann.de ISBN 978-3-8260-6305

Van der Merwe, P & Bekker, I. 2018. (Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films. Journal of Literary Studies, (34)3, September.

Van der Merwe, P. & Bekker, I. 2015. E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: World’s Fair (1985) as a carnivalesque Bildungsroman, Literator 36(2), Art. #1181, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit. v36i2.1181

Van der Merwe, P., 2014, ‘‘Everything is autobiographical’: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s idiolect in Lost (1999)’, Literator 35(2), Art. #1151, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1151

Van der Merwe, P. & Sepp, A. 2013. „Trugreisen“. Mögliche Welten und narrative Unzuverlässigkeit in Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Der Papst, den ich gekannt habe (2007), Acta Germanica: German Studies in Africa (41), 129-138.

Van der Merwe, P. 2007. Hard Times as Bodie: the allegorical functionality in E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times (1960), Literator 28(2) Aug., 49-73.

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Adri Breed

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:15:43 +0000

Adri Breed BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/24/2018 - 17:15

Afrikaans linguistics

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Adri

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Adri Breed is a NRF-rated associate professor in Afrikaans descriptive linguistics at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus. She specializes in syntax and semantics, with a particular focus on the grammaticalisation of tense and aspect constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch. She completed five degrees at the NWU, namely a degree in Business Communication (B.Bk. – 2005), a degree in Theology with languages (B.Th. Languages – 2005), an Honours degree in Afrikaans Linguistics (B.A. Hons. – 2007), a Master's degree Afrikaans Literature (M.A. – 2007) and her PhD in Afrikaans Linguistics in 2012. During the course of her doctoral studies, she spent roughly ten months at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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2009 Breed, C. A. 2009. Review article: Christa Konig, Case in Africa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Word Structure, 2(1):121-135. [ERIH, ESCI]
2009 Breed, C.A. & Greyling, S.F. 2009. 'n Ondersoek na 'n werkswyse: Die herskryf van 'n Afrikaanse roman 'n draaiboek. Literator, 31(2). [DHET, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2013 Breed, C.A. 2013. Die hedetyd is iets van die verlede: kommentaar op die "hedetydskryftradisie" in die Afrikaanse skryfkuns. Literator: Hans du Plessis-Festschrift, 34(2). [DHET, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2014 Breed, C.A. & Van Huyssteen, G.B. 2014. Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: die ontstaan en ontwikkeling (1). Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 54(4):1-18 [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2015 Breed, C.A. & Brisard, F. 2015. Postulêre werkwoorde as progressiewe merkers in Afrikaans en Nederlands. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 53(1):3-28. [VABB-SHW]
2015 Breed, C.A. & Van Huyssteen, G.B. 2015. Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: ’n korpusondersoek (2). Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 55(2):1-18. [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2015 Van Olmen, D. & Breed, C.A. 2015. Afrikaans as Standaard Gemiddeld Europees. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 33(2): 227-246 [DHET, ISI, SCOPUS]
2016 Breed, C.A & Van Aardt, C.A. 2016. Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – 'n ondersoek vanuit 'n grammatikaliseringsperspek. Spil, 48:1-24. [DHET]
2016 Breed, C.A. 2016. Aspek in Afrikaans: 'n hedendaagse beskrywing. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56(1):1-19 [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2016 Breed, C.A., Carstens, W.A.M. & Olivier, J.A.C. Die DBAT : 'n Onbekende digitale taalkundemuseum. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56 (2-1) 391-409, Jun.
2017 Breed, C.A. 2017. The subjective use of postural verb in Afrikaans (I): evolution from progressive to modal. SPiLPlus, 52. [DHET]
2017 Breed, C.A. 2017. The subjective use of postural verbs in Afrikaans (II): a corpus analysis of CPV en in Zefrikaans. SPiLPlus, 52. [DHET]
2017 Breed, C.A., Brisard, F. & Verhoeven, B. 2017. Periphrastic progressive constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A contrastive analysis. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 29(4).[ISI, SCOPUS]
2017 Brink, N. & Breed, C.A. 2017. H Hoe jong Afrikaanssprekende kinders betekenis aan hul vroeë taalgebruik verbind. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 57(4):1012-1036. [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
2017 Breed, A. & Van Olmen, D. Menslike onpersoonlike voornaamwoorde in Nederlands vanuit 'n dubbelvraelysaanpak – 'n vergelyking met Afrikaans. Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, 2017(2). [DHET]
2018 Van Olmen, D. & Breed, C.A. 2018. Human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans: A double questionnaire-based study. Language Sciences, 69:1-29, September. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.05.002 [ISI, Norwegian, Scopus]
2018 Van Olmen, D., Breed, A. & Verhoeven, B. 2018. A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun (‘n) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch. Languages in Contrast, E-print before publication 5 June 2018 https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.17004.van. [Scopus]
2018 Van Olmen, D. & Breed, A. Human impersonal pronouns in West Germanic: A questionnaire-based comparative study of Afrikaans, Dutch and English. Studies in Language, In press. [Scopus]

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Wannie Carstens

GÉNA THOMPSON — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:33:56 +0000

Wannie Carstens GÉNA THOMPSON Thu, 05/22/2014 - 12:33

Afrikaans linguistics

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Director

Wannie

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Prof Wannie Carstens has been Director of the School of Languages at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus since 2001. He is currently also the chairperson of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, chairperson of the Suid Afrikaanse Akademie van Kuns en Kultuur, chairperson of the Nasionale Taalligaam vir Afrikaans and also serves on a variety of boards. He is, amongst others, also a member of the panel of translators for the new Afrikaans Bible translation.

He was one of the founder collaborators of the collection of Afrikaans poetry that is housed in the Poëzie centrum in Gent, Belgium, and is also leader of a project that established a digital library on Afrikaans language sources (DBAT). He is a graded researcher of the National Research Foundation (NNS/NRF) in South Africa and also participates regularly in radio and television programmes on language matters.

Carstens regularly acts as selector of articles in subject magazines and he himself also published in a variety of fields. He already published two independent books (Norme vir Afrikaans, 1989, 1991, 1994, 2002, 2011) as well as Afrikaanse tekslinguistiek, 1997) and is also co-author of a book titled Teksredaksie (with Prof Kris van de Poel of the University of Antwerp; 2010, 2012). An English version of this book has just been published as: Text editing. A handbook for students and practitioners (Antwerp, University Press Antwerp – Kris van de Poel, WAM Carstens & John Linnegar).

He is also co-author of the ninth edition of the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (2002), the leading and directive publication on spelling in Afrikaans. As member of the Taalkommissie (Language Commission) he is also the co-recipient of the CJ Langenhoven Prize for Language Science from the SA Academy of Science and Art, and he also received an ATKV Woordwyser award for his book Norme vir Afrikaans (4th edition 2003). The fifth revised edition of this book was published in May 2011 and is widely prescribed to universities in SA.

Carstens has already published 33 academic articles as well as numerous popular articles. He also acts as moderator for other universities (UNISA, UFS and UP) as well as external examiner of other universities’ dissertations and theses.

Carstens is currently in the process of writing a book on the history of Afrikaans and hopes to publish it by the end of 2013.

From 2007 Carstens has been travelling regularly to Belgium where he acts as guest professor at the University of Antwerp.

He was the study leader/promoter of several Master’s and PhD students.

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