Die herstandaardisering van Afrikaans : 'n praktiese benadering met die AWS as gevallestudie

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This study comprises an investigation into the restandardisation of Afrikaans. Since the 1980s,there have been various calls from the Afrikaans speech community for the democratisation ofAfrikaans by making it representative of the whole Afrikaans speech community. Despite thesecalls for the restandardisation of Afrikaans, a matter which has been brought to the fore in recentyears, there are still no real theoretically-based and practical suggestions for such a project. Thepractical approach to the restandardisation of Afrikaans suggested in this study, with a specificfocus on the restandardisation of the orthography of Afrikaans, informs the suggestion of a modelby which such a planned restandardisation programme for Afrikaans could be carried out. This isdone based on existing theories of standardisation and restandardisation, as well as a thoroughinvestigation into the history of the standardisation of Afrikaans in order to determine the reasonsunderlying this need for its restandardisation.Firstly, relevant theories of standardisation are considered in order to determine which aspects oflanguage standardisation give rise to restandardisation and play the most important role in it. Thehistory of the standardisation of Afrikaans is also considered, in order to indicate the factors whichgave rise to the calls for the restandardisation of Afrikaans. The world-wide phenomenon of destandardisation– an increasing trend by which the validity of standardised languages is called intoquestion – is subsequently considered. Following this, restandardisation is considered in greaterdetail. Although the term is used widely, there are not yet thorough theoretical descriptions of thenature of the process itself. Therefore, this study provides a theoretical consideration of whatrestandardisation comprises. An investigation into various examples of attempts at the restandardisationof languages in South Africa, Africa, and the rest of the world serves as a backdropagainst which the need for the restandardisation of Afrikaans is discussed.The standardisation of the orthography of Afrikaans, as outlined in the ten issues of the Afrikaansewoordelys en spelreëls ('Afrikaans word list and spelling rules) which have been published todate, is the next research focus. The purpose of this critical evaluation of the primary source fororthographic standardisation of Afrikaans is to point out the weaknesses in the currentstandardisation process which necessitate a new approach to the standardisation of Afrikaans (andby extension, its restandardisation).Finally, a model is presented for the restandardisation of the orthography of Afrikaans, but alsoAfrikaans as a whole, based on various theoretical and practical considerations contained in thestudy.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University