The Impact of Apartheid on English Discourse in South Africa
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7451-2022-41-3-562-568Keywords:
modality, linguistic circle, linguistic interference, British English, South African Territorial English, linguistic identityAbstract
This article examines African cultural identity in the example of English-language fiction of writers from South Africa, published primarily in «Drum» magazine in the mid-twentieth century. The events that took place during the first half of the XX century in the Republic of South Africa reflected in the linguistic discourse of its inhabitants. The article focuses on the use by South African writers of English, historically alien to them, to express African culture in it. On the material of South African journals the degree of connection between English and local languages in the use of modal verbs in indigenous South Africa, idioms and language interference was also investigated. A theoretical analysis of African fiction in diachrony was conducted in order to identify the features of South African authors' use of English in their works, which contributed to the further development of the South African territorial variant of English in indigenous literature.
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