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Gerhard B van Huyssteen

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:20:30 +0000

Gerhard B van Huyssteen BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 15:20

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Gerhard B

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Gerhard van Huyssteen (51) is a professor of Afrikaans linguistics and computer linguistics at the North-West University. His research focuses mostly on construction grammar (specifically Afrikaans morphology, and swearing in Afrikaans), with application in language standardization, and the development of human language technology (HLT) resources and applications for (mainly) Afrikaans. He served on the Language Commission of the South African Academy for Science and the Arts from 2005-2021, and was elected chair from 2013-2021. From 2009-2014 he served on the panel of human language technology experts of the Department of Arts and Culture. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth Eybers Scholarship, the CL Engelbrecht Prize for Linguistic Research for his contribution to the publication of the tenth edition of the "Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls", and the recipient of the Stals Prize for inter- and multidisciplinary research. Van Huyssteen is best known for his contribution as a linguist in the development of text technology applications and various electronic resources for Afrikaans, and as conceptualiser, content producer, and presenter of language quiz programs on Radio Sonder Grense and kykNET, as columnist in Beeld / Netwerk24, and producer and presenter of four podcast series on language and linguistic issues.

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Building E9, room 108; Potchefstroom

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Ilse de Korte

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:06:57 +0000

Ilse de Korte BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 15:06

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Dr Ilse de Korte is a senior lecturer in literature and head of the section Afrikaans and Dutch at Northwest University (Vanderbijlpark campus). Ilse started her career at the University of Cape Town and in 1999 she received the Stichting Studiefonds voor Zuid Afrikaanse Studenten Studiebeurs to conduct research for her MA-thesis at Leiden University. In 2000 she returned from the Netherlands to enrol for a PhD. Resuming contract teaching at the University of Cape Town between 2000 and 2004, she received the Nuffic-scholarship for research at the Radboudt University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands in 2004. After completing her PhD, Ilse spent the next few years teaching at the Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza in Poland, the film school, AFDA, and UNISA. In 2011, she joined Oxford University Press as Development Editor in Higher Education.

After publishing the first Afrikaans translation of the classic text, the Kama Sutra, in 2013 (as Afrikamasutra), she won the UNISA Hiddingh Currie Award for Academic Excellence in 2014. In 2014 she returned to UCT where she completed a PGDip in Higher Education whilst lecturing at the Graduate School of Business and in the Faculty of Health Sciences. The year 2015 not only saw the birth of her son, but also the birth of her first Afrikaans chick-lit novel, Die Jaar toe Emma begin kook het. Early in 2016, Ilse was appointed as head of Afrikaans and Dutch at Rhodes University. Finally, in 2018, she took up a position as senior lecturer of Afrikaans literature at Northwest University, where her leadership abilities came to the fore again as head of the Vanderbijlpark campus section of Afrikaans and Dutch since 2019. She is a member of the Afrikaanse Letterkunde Vereeniging and Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Her area of expertise is popular romance in Afrikaans.

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Vanderbijlpark campus

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(016) 910-3472

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Dr Janien Linde

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:01:16 +0000

Dr Janien Linde BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 15:01

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Dr. Janien Linde is a senior lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University. She was appointed in January of 2015. She held a similar position at the University of Johannesburg during 2012 and 2013. She completed BA and BA Honours degrees Masters in Afrikaans and Dutch literature. She obtained a Master’s Degree (Cum Laude) in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature form the North-West University with a dissertation on cognitive narratology, friendship and eudaimonia in Die sneeuslaper (The snowsleeper) by Marlene van Niekerk. For this she received the Marius Jooste-medal for best MA-dissertation completed in the Subject Group Afrikaans and Dutch during 2014. Her PhD thesis (2018) in Linguistics and Literary Theory focussed on metamodernism, performativity and relationality in the oeuvre of Marlene van Niekerk. Her research interests include Afrikaans and Dutch poetry and prose, literary theory, comparative literature, post-postmodernism, posthumanism and postcritical reading strategies. In 2019 Linde spent 3 months in Antwerp, Belgium lecturing a Master-level course on Afrikaans literature. Linde has served on the review committee for the UJ Literary Prize, as well as on the executive committees of LASA (the Literary Association of South Africa) and of the ALV (the Afrikaans Literary Association) of which she is currently the secretary. She is actively involved in the Afrikaans literary community, presenting lectures at reading groups and book clubs, and reviewing academic papers and literary texts.

Her interest in narrative identity and performance springs from the research done for her PhD.

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