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3^rd Kaaps Symposium

Dates: 15 and 16  August 2024
Venue: University of the Western Cape

Organisers:

• Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR)
• Linguistics Department
• Departement van Afrikaans en Neerlandistiek
• Comité International Permanent des Linguistics (CIPL)

Kaaps is one of the oldest ‘languages’ in South Africa. From colonialism to post-apartheid, activists, academics, artists, authors continue to campaign for the empowerment of Kaaps speakers in schools, universities, social life, politics, and the economy of South Africa. Kaaps is also an important linguistic resource in the Western Cape and beyond. In recent years, there has been an increased focus and production of research and creative writing on:

• The history of formation of Kaaps
• The social life of Kaaps
• The linguistic description of Kaaps;
• The unification of the writing system;
• The educational advancement of Kaaps for academic literacy in basic and higher education; and
• The political, media and economic benefits of Kaaps.

We invite academic presentations (posters, papers, panel discussions) and creative works and performances in a forum that aims to bring together developing and cutting-edge research and work that will benefit the science of Kaaps and support the social and academic literacy practices of Kaaps speakers, and full participation in the educational, religious, cultural, political and economic facets of our rainbow, non-racial society. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together emerging and senior researchers (including MA/PhD postgraduate students), artists and creatives to present research from the perspective of the following sub-themes:

• History of Kaaps
• Kaaps and culture (including popular culture)
• Kaaps and identity
• Kaaps and religion
• Kaaps and music
• Kaaps and food
• Kaaps and gender
• Kaaps and multilingual literature
• Kaaps in schools
• Kaaps in higher education
• Kaaps and orthography development
• Kaaps and lexicography
• Kaaps and standardization
• General Linguistics of Kaaps (morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology, etc)
• Kaaps and Dutch
• Kaaps and Khoi Afrikaans
• Kaaps and Gariep Afrikaans
• Kaaps as Afrikaaps
• Kaaps and Afrikaans
• Kaaps and English
• Kaaps and isiXhosa
• Kaaps and isiZulu
• Kaaps as a language
• Kaaps and politics
• Kaaps and business
• Kaaps and health
• Kaaps and linguistic landscapes
• Kaaps and governance
• Kaaps and law (forensic linguistics)
• Kaaps and family language policy
• Kaaps and multilingualism
• Kaaps and language contact, maintenance and loss
• Kaaps and language policy and planning
• Kaaps and creative writing

Proposed Plenary Speakers and Invited Panel:

Academic

• Michael Le Cordeur
• Erin Pretorius
• Quentin Williams
• Steward van Wyk

Creative

• Olivia Coetzee
• Nathan Trantraal
• Ronelda Kamfer
• Radna Fabias
• Babs Gons

International

• Invited CIPL Panel on the Empowerment of Kaaps

SUBMISSION DATES:

• First date: 30^th September 2023
• Second date: 30^th June 2024
• Final date: 31^st July 2024 

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Persverklaring: 3de Kaaps Simposium | 3re Kaaps Simposium | 3rd Kaaps Symposium