Exploring the Use of South African Ethnic and Racial Slurs on Social Media
In this paper, I use discourse analysis as a framework to examine Facebook posts and understand how South African ethnic and racial slurs are used and responded to on social media platforms. I illustrate how language in general and slurs in particular work as tools for the negotiation, (re)productio...
Main Author: | Sonia Mbowa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2020-05-01
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Series: | International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies |
Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0053 |
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