A critical discourse analysis of Maphalla’s selected poems: South Africa’s pre-democratic election messages

IF 0.4 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/02572117.2023.2200450
Mantoa Motinyane
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The years 1990 to 1994 were the most critical years in the lives of all South Africans. For writers, this period presented an opportunity for expressions that have long been suppressed due to the censoring of writers in South Africa. Poetry was one of the ways in which a writer was able to reveal and express his or her thoughts about what they see, hear and the general events that are related to their lives and society at large. Maphalla is also one of the writers who used the pen to spread the messages of death, pain, love, hope and peace, whilst also being very critical of the socio-political environment at the time. As his name (the peaceful one) implies, Kgotso Maphalla was a writer who was able to rebuke, criticise and give hope in a peaceful manner. This article analyses four of Maphalla’s poems from his poetry book called Seitebatso [Oblivion]. The four poems were selected to address the themes of freedom, hope and injustice. There are many traditional methods used to analyse poems. In this article, I have chosen to use critical discourse analysis, which is a method of analysing spoken language and text, to demonstrate the balance between language, identity, social relations, and power. Discourse is therefore molded by relations of power and invested ideologies. In this kind of analysis, I show that Maphalla used language in a manner that reflected freedom, peace, and hope that the volatile situation will settle down, at a very uncertain time in South Africa.
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马菲拉诗歌选集的批判性话语分析:南非民主选举前的信息
1990年至1994年是所有南非人生活中最关键的几年。对于作家来说,这一时期为由于南非作家审查而长期受到压制的表达提供了机会。诗歌是作家能够揭示和表达他或她对他们的所见所闻以及与他们的生活和社会有关的一般事件的想法的一种方式。马菲拉也是用笔传播死亡、痛苦、爱、希望与和平信息的作家之一,同时他也对当时的社会政治环境持批评态度。正如他的名字(和平的那个)所暗示的那样,Kgotso Maphalla是一位能够以和平的方式指责、批评和给予希望的作家。本文分析马菲拉诗集《遗忘》中的四首诗。这四首诗的主题是自由、希望和不公正。有许多传统的方法用来分析诗歌。在这篇文章中,我选择使用批判性话语分析,这是一种分析口语和文本的方法,来展示语言,身份,社会关系和权力之间的平衡。因此,话语是由权力关系和意识形态所塑造的。在这种分析中,我指出,马法拉使用的语言反映了自由、和平和希望动荡的局势将在南非一个非常不确定的时刻安定下来。
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期刊介绍: The South African Journal of African Languages is a peer-reviewed research journal devoted to the advancement of African (Bantu) and Khoi-San languages and literatures. Papers, book reviews and polemic contributions of a scientific nature in any of the core areas of linguistics, both theoretical (e.g. syntax, phonology, semantics) and applied (e.g. sociolinguistic topics, language teaching, language policy), and literature, based on original research in the context of the African languages, are welcome. The journal is the official mouthpiece of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), established in 1979.
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