I completed my undergraduate degree in Education (Senior Phase and FET) followed by my Honours and Masters degrees in English. I received the Vice Chancellor’s Medal for the best MA dissertation. Finally, I received my PhD in Linguistics and Literary theory in 2018.

INTERESTS: sub-cultural languages; ethnolinguistic vitality; identity; culture; Fanagalo.

PUBLICATIONS:

Ravyse, N.E. & van Zyl, A.J.M. 2019. Between two fires: linguistic justice vs language policy Paper co-presented at the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) in Hong Kong from 8-14 June 2019.

Ravyse, N.E. 2018. Against All Odds: The Survival of Fanagalo in South African Mines https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2018.1440319 Ravyse, N.E. 2018. Measuring sub-cultural linguistic vitality in a superdiverse context. Paper presented at the International Congress of Linguistics Cape Town from 1-6 July 2018.

Ravyse, N.E. 2015. Fanagalo: A sub-cultural language survival story. Paper presented at the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) in Antwerpen from 26 July – 31 July 2015.

Ravyse, N.E. 2014, ‘Nadsat: The oscillation between reader immersion and repulsion’, Literator 35(1), Art. #433. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ lit.v35i1.433

Ravyse, N.E. 2014. Against all odds: The status of Fanagalo at a Rustenburg mine in 2013”. Annual conference of the LSSA/SAALA/SAALT 25-27 June 2014