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The discourse of lending aid on small-scale development project websites: Dutch depreciatory diminutives
Juffermans, Kasper
2008In Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 39 (1), p. 125-144
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Keywords :
development aid; diminutives; Dutch; Internet; The Gambia; the Other; tourism
Abstract :
[en] This article offers an analysis of the use of language on the websites of Dutch and Flemish small-scale development organisations active in The Gambia. The scope of this research is the websites of 66 organisations found through the hyperlink page http://gambia-hulporganisaties.startpagina.nl. The texts on the websites form a small corpus of around 375 000 words. Methodologically, a discourse-analytical perspective is assumed, heuristically assisted by corpus linguistic software. Thus, the texts are analysed simultaneously from a macro and micro-level: large-scale lexical patterns are combined with smaller-scale, contextualised, individual chunks of text. After a brief outline of the projects’ roots in tourism through self-reported histories of involvement and a cursory review of the literature on meanings and functions of diminutives in Dutch and other languages, the role of diminutives in the representation of the Third-World Other is explored. It is argued that diminutives in this context are used in an ambivalent way: diminutives express a sense of sympathy and at the same time reveal a derogative tone in descriptions of the Gambian side of the projects.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Juffermans, Kasper ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Languages, Culture, Media and Identities (LCMI)
Language :
English
Title :
The discourse of lending aid on small-scale development project websites: Dutch depreciatory diminutives
Publication date :
January 2008
Journal title :
Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa
ISSN :
1022-8195
Publisher :
Routledge and UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
Volume :
39
Issue :
1
Pages :
125-144
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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