Ian Bekker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian Bekker is involved.
Articles
2025 Implicit language attitudes among young, white, L1-Afrikaans speakers towards two South African Englishes: The role of gender and family language English World-Wide 46:2, pp. 127–153 | Article
This paper reports on an Implicit Association Test (IAT)-based investigation of the language-attitudes of the white (Afrikaans and English) speech-communities of South Africa, with a focus on young, L1-Afrikaans speakers. Drawing from an extensive literature review, two hypotheses were… read more
2012 South African English as a late 19th-century extraterritorial variety English World-Wide 33:2, pp. 127–146 | Article
This article argues that the external history of South African English (SAfE) points towards the merits of conceptualizing SAfE as the product of a three-stage koinéization process, the last stage of which takes place contemporaneously with the establishment of Johannesburg. This is at odds with… read more
2003 Using historical data to explain language attitudes: A South African case study Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), pp. 62–77 | Article