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Defining people: race and ethnicity in South African English dictionaries

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posted on 2023-06-08, 08:04 authored by Lynne MurphyLynne Murphy
This paper examines problems in defining racial terminology in an age of international lexicography through a survey of South African English (SAfE) racial and ethnic terminology and its representation in English dictionaries used in South Africa. Rather than reflecting past apartheid attitudes and racial definitions, dictionaries for the South African public tend to ignore the most common South African senses of racial labels [terms]. The deficits and biases in these dictionaries are surveyed with an eye to the changing roles of dictionaries, English, and racial classification in South Africa. [NB: In this paper, Label can mean (1) 'word, as for social group' (eg European); (2) 'diasystemic label' (eg SAfE; derog).]

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  • Published

Journal

International Journal of Lexicography

ISSN

0950-3846

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Oxford University Press

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1

Volume

11

Page range

1-33

ISBN

0950-3846

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  • English Publications

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2012-02-06

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