- Title
- The linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe
- Creator
- Maseko, Busani, Nkomo, Dion
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468075
- Identifier
- vital:77005
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781779224286
- Description
- This chapter explores the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to ad-dress claims that the operation was anything other than a genocide. When discussing genocide, Lang (2020) reveals the connection be-tween genocidal acts and language. Writing on the Nazi Holocaust, Lang (2020: 155) lays bare the nexus between genocides and lan-guage. To escape the consequences of language, for worse or for bet-ter, would require an impossible step outside history for its speakers or writers no less than for its audience–and whatever else we discover about the Nazi genocide. The background to this claim is broader than the specific evidence of the role of language in the Nazi genocide. The existence of a causal relation between language and history, between linguistic practice and events in the social context, would be disputed only on the view of language as neutral and transparent medium. Tes-timony comes from many different sources of the history of language as ‘real’history, evolving in direct relation to features of the historical and social context. On general grounds, it is predictable that linguistic de-velopments which occurred at the time of Nazi genocide would disclose features resembling those of the process of genocide itself; it would be difficult to understand how the latter might occur without corresponding changes in language (Lang 2020: 155).
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- African Books Collective
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Maseko, B. and Nkomo, D., 2022. The linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. Memory and erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe, pp.81-95
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- Rights
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Nkomo, Dion (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education
RU School of Languages and Literatures
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