Table of Contents:
  • Politics and discourse in South Africa / Mirjana N. Dedaic and Sally Hunt
  • Mandela speaks to the nation : The use of metalingual mitigation markers to unify the audience / Mirjana N. Dedaic
  • Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa / Ian Siebörger and Ralph Adendorff
  • To be or not to be "African" : Discursive race politics in a South African online forum / Stephanie Rudwick
  • De- and recontextualising xenophobia : discursive representations of non-nationals in the tabloid Daily Sun during attacks on immigrants in April -May 2008 / Carla Els
  • "Xenophobia is an African sickness; a greater African disease" : Contesting dominant migrant discourse through opposing metaphors / Leigh Crymble
  • From sexual deviants to politically emancipated queers : Changing representations of gay and lesbian identities in South Africa / Tracey Lee McCormick and Tommaso M. Milani
  • "Mother of the nation" : Representations of womanhood in the South African media / Sally Hunt
  • Trade unions in South Africa and the discourse of the neoliberal state / Claudia Ortu
  • Emzabalazweni : Singing the language of struggle, past and present / Janet Cherry.