Retracing the racial semiotics of the other-lingual ( anderstalige ) in Dutch and Afrikaans: Exploring its emergence in South Africa and its (re-)emergence in Flanders ...

This article explores the racial semiotics of the Dutch concept of the other-lingual ( de anderstalige ). Multicultural discourse ostensibly encodes the otherness as merely linguistic; however, Flemish nationalist policy discourse deploys the other-lingual to discern autochthony from allochthony. Retracing the origins of this concept, we found that the concept did not originate in Dutch-speaking Europe, but we found earlier traces overseas in apartheid South Africa where the Afrikaans concept served the forced exclusion of coloured people. We conduct a semiotic analysis of the other-lingual to... Mehr ...