Born in Port Elizabeth, I have worked as a linguist at Unisa, Rhodes University & NWU. I joined the English Department at NWU (Potchfstroom Campus) in 2010.

PUBLICATIONS:

Van der Merwe, P. & Bekker, I. 2018. (Dis)Continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films. Journal of Literary Studies, 34(3): 16-30.

Bekker, I. 2018. Kairos and carnival: Mikhail Bakhtin’s rhetorical and ethical Christian vision. Religions, 9,79; doi: 10.3390/rel9030079.

Bekker, I. & Levon, E. 2017. The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English. Linguistics, 55(5): 1109-1139.

Bekker, I. 2017. Earlier South African English, in Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English, ed. Raymond Hickey. CUP, Cambridge; pgs. 464-483.

PROJECTS:

Language in a Post-Apartheid South African City (focused on language variation and change & language-contact in and among the various languages of Potchefstroom i.e. Afrikaans, Setswana, English, isiXhosa etc.)