Marcelyn Oostendorp, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
Office: Department of General Linguistics, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 / Room 505,
Arts Building, c/o Ryneveld Street and Merriman Ave, Stellenbosch, South Africa
tel 0218089288, moostendorp@sun.ac.za
Selected recent publications:
Oostendorp, M. 2021. Raced repertoires: Reconceptualising the linguistic repertoire as racialised and multi-semiotic. Applied Linguistics.
Oostendorp, M., Duke, L., Mashazi, S. & Pretorius, C. 2021. When linguists become artists: an exercise in boundaries, borders and vulnerabilities. In Bock, Z. & Stroud, C. (eds.). Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education. Reclaiming Voices from the South. London: Bloomsbury.
Full list of publications below
Funded projects as Principal Investigator (ongoing)
Politics of the Belly: Language, Food, and Memory in the (re)construction of South African Identity (2020-2022) Funded by NRF
Afrikaans, Music, and Identity, Funded by the Het Jan Marais Fonds
Image-ining multilingualism in transformation: The linguistic repertoires of underrepresented students in higher education (2017-2021) Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation small grants (as part of suprabid Unsettling paradigms).
Funded projects as Collaborator (ongoing)
Making Indigenous Stories Accessible to the Youth through Electronic Games (2019-2021), Funded by the National Research Foundation’s Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grant; Principal Investigator: Elmarie Costandius; My role: Co-Researcher
Full list of publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Oostendorp, M. In Press. Engaging dystopia: Linguistic citizenship and migrant voice. Multilingual Margins.
Oostendorp, M. 2021. Raced repertoires: Reconceptualising the linguistic repertoire as racialised and multi-semiotic. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab018
Haese, A., Costandius, E., & Oostendorp, M. 2018. Fostering a culture of reading with wordless picturebooks in a South African context. International Journal of Art and Design Education 37(4), 587-598.
Oostendorp, M. 2018. Extending resemiotization: Time, space and body in discursive representation. Social Semiotics 28(3), 297-314.
Oostendorp, M. 2017. “As an undergrad I don’t have the right to an opinion”: Reconstructing students as creative meaning-makers in the Applied English language classroom”. RELC: Journal of Language Learning and Teaching 48(2), 278–285.
Oostendorp, M. 2016. Giving voice (Introduction to the special issue). Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 49, i-iv.
Oostendorp, M. & Jones, T. 2015. Tensions, ambivalence and contradiction: A small story analysis of discursive identity construction in the South African workplace. Text and Talk 35(1), 25-47.
Krige, J. & Oostendorp, M. 2015. “Too late for tears, dear sister”: Constructing victims of rape in the advice column Dear Dolly in Drum Magazine. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS 46, 7-23.
Oostendorp, M. 2015. The multimodal construction of the identity of politicians: Constructing Jacob Zuma through prior texts, prior discourses and multiple modes. Critical Discourse Studies 12(1), 39-56 (Featured in Taylor Francis STAR and Talking Points collections).
Oostendorp, M. & Anthonissen, C. 2014. Multiple voices in bilingual higher education: Language choices of Afrikaans/English bilinguals at Stellenbosch University. Per Linguam 30(2), 69-87.
Bristowe, A., Oostendorp, M. & Anthonissen, C. 2014. Language and youth identity in a multilingual setting: A multimodal repertoire approach. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 32(2), 229-245.
Bylund, E., Athanasopoulus, P. & Oostendorp, M. 2013. Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect: Evidence from Afrikaans. Linguistics 51(5), 929-955.
Oostendorp, M. 2012. New perspectives on crosslinguistic influence: Language and Cognition. Language Teaching 45(3), 389-398.
Oostendorp, M. & Bylund, E. 2012. Emotions and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A multilingual perspective. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS 41, 77-89.
Book Chapters
Oostendorp, M. Accepted. Humour as a Southern sociolinguistic methodology. In Makoni, S. & Deumert, A. (eds). From Southern theory to Decolonial Sociolinguistics. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Mashazi, S. & Oostendorp, M. Accepted. The interplay of linguistic repertoires, bodies, and space in an educational context. In Purkarthofer, J. & Flubacher, M. (eds). Speaking subjects – Biographical methods in multilingualism research. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Oostendorp, M. In Press. Linguistic citizenship and non-citizens: Of utopias and dystopias. In Williams, Q., Deumert, A., & Milani, T. (eds). Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship: Education, Narrative and Epistem. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Oostendorp, M., Duke, L., Mashazi, S. & Pretorius, C. 2021. When linguists become artists: an exercise in boundaries, borders and vulnerabilities. In Bock, Z. & Stroud, C. (eds.). Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education. Reclaiming Voices from the South. London: Bloomsbury.
Oostendorp, M. 2014/2019. First language acquisition. In Bock, Z. & Mhetha, G. (eds). Language, society and communication: An introduction (pp. 213-242). Pretoria: Van Schaik.
Bylund, E. & Oostendorp, M. 2014/2019. Second language acquisition. In Bock, Z. & Mhetha, G. (eds). Language, society and communication: An introduction (pp. 243-262). Pretoria: Van Schaik.
International Conference Proceedings
Le Roux, A. Costandius, A. & Oostendorp, M. 2018. Wordless Picturebooks in Parent-Child Reading in the South African Context. Arte, ilustracióny cultura visual. Diálogos en torno a la mediación educativa crítica dentro y fuera de la escuela (Proceedings of the International Conference of Art, illustration and visual culture in preschool and primary education).
Giving Voice: Studies in honour of Christine Anthonissen. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 49.
Special issues and edited volumes in progress
Decolonizing Applied Linguistics: Will North meet South (with Ana de Fina & Lourdes Ortega). Applied Linguistics
Handbook of Language and Trauma (with Judith Purkarthofer and Brigitta Busch). Routledge