Abstract
Most studies on campus and private policing take on political, anthropological, sociological, and criminological perspectives. Although there were investigations on policing in South Africa during apartheid, scant research has focused on how students in South African higher education (SAHE) relate their experiences of campus policing. Due to recent unrest on SAHE campuses and radical changes that include the militarization of police forces, examining how students perceive the legitimacy and integrity of campus policing is vital. As such, this paper presents a discourse analysis focused on descriptions of students’ campus experiences in the aftermath of the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests. Combining critical discourse analysis (CDA) with systemic functional linguistics, through transitivity, it offers insight into the ideological power struggles between students and police. It shows the types of voices students reveal as an aggrieved group in the hope of identifying non-aggressive approaches to address emotionally charged events (such as protests). Adding transitivity analysis to CDA provides a solid framework for decoding radical meanings at the peak of chaotic situations in which social change in post-apartheid South Africa can be facilitated by understanding marginalized groups.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Interpreting profanity in police interviews
- Investigating the language-culture nexus in refugee legal advice meetings
- A local discursive dimension in a specific historical context: Students’ narratives of police experiences during South Africa’s #FeesMustFall protests
- A weave of symbolic violence: dominance and complicity in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism
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- Review
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Interpreting profanity in police interviews
- Investigating the language-culture nexus in refugee legal advice meetings
- A local discursive dimension in a specific historical context: Students’ narratives of police experiences during South Africa’s #FeesMustFall protests
- A weave of symbolic violence: dominance and complicity in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism
- Transnational Sri Lankan Sinhalese family language policy: Challenges and contradictions at play in two families in the U.S.
- Review
- A Review on Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti