Browsing by Author "Beuke-Muir, Chrisna"

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    Afrikaanse Spreekwoorde en Uitdrukkings
    (AFRILEX, 1999) Beuke-Muir, Chrisna
    Afrikaanse Spreekwoorde en Uitdrukkings. A Macrostructural Study. A restricted synchronic dictionary such as Afrikaanse Spreekwoorde en Uitdrukkings has an important role to play in modem Iexirography where user-friendly reference sources facilitate communication. A considerable number of theoretical guidelines exist for the choice of lexicon items to be included in a dictionary, and this review article attempts to provide some pointers. The research also includes sociolinguistic implications which result from the compilation of the macrostructure of a particular dictionary. The focal points are firstly taboos to which lexicographers of Afrikaans􀂸 dictionaries are subjected, and secondly establishing which expressions fall within the limits of idiomatic language usage. The treatment of idiom-like collocations particularly appears to be problematic. Another issue which will be considered briefly, ls the morphological presentation of lemmas.
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    Van Rooyen boei met vreemde wereld
    (University of Namibia, 2002) Beuke-Muir, Chrisna
    DIE BRANDENDE MAN, deur Piet van Rooyen. Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria, 2002. (Sagteband, I28 bladsye, ISBN I 9I9825 68 I ,R69,95.) NA die spoorsny-trilogie Die Spoorsnyer (1994), Die Olifantjagters (1997) en Gif(2001) waarin die manlike hoofkarakter telkens op die spoor was van die verlore Self, beweeg Piet van Rooyen met sy jongste roman weg van die Afrika-milieu.
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    Visual literature: An essential part of academic learning
    (University of Namibia, 2016) Beuke-Muir, Chrisna
    Because the world is becoming a planet where speed plays a much bigger role than only one generation ago, information is gained at almost the speed of light. Although is not seen as strange phenomenon anymore, the fact remains that technology has developed so drastically that it is almost unthinkable that a person of sixty years old today started her live without television, computer, internet, and perhaps, also without a telephone. In the process literature and language are disciplines that are drastically influenced, apart from the fact that 93% of all language is non-verbal. Images are becoming a most important part of communication and influence us cognitively and emotionally. Images also accelerate and increase our level of comprehension. Therefore visual literature is becoming an integral part of learning. In this article, the Afrikaans comic Asterix die Galliër is investigated, and it is argued that a comic can serve as a subgenre in the main stream of literature. Visual and verbal language are compared and common entities in the syntax, morphology and lexicon are identifi ed. It is concluded that the combined process of reading text and seeing images is essential for learning and rational thinking. Visual literature should therefore not be neglected as a source of academic training.