Ian Siebörger
Lecturer
BA(Hons), MA (Rhodes)
Email: ian.sieborger@ru.ac.za
Research interests:
- Literacies in context
- Linguistic ethnography
- Language of the media
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
- Legitimation Code Theory
Courses taught:
- Linguistics 1 Texts
- Linguistics 2 Systemic Functional Grammar
- Linguistics 2 Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics
- Professional Communication: Written Communication
- Postgraduate Ethnographic Investigation of Literacy Practices (with Ralph Adendorff)
- Postgraduate Sign Language Linguistics (from 2013)
Publications:
- 2009: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R. Towards a linguistic ethnography of recontextualization in the South African Parliament. Poster presented at Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication conference, Birmingham, UK, 11 September 2009.
- 2009: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R. Newspaper literacy and communication for democracy: is there a crisis in South African journalism? Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 27(4), 413-438.
- 2011: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Spatial negotiation as recontextualization in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. Paper presented at Mobility Language Literacy conference, Cape Town, 19-21 January 2011.
- 2011: Siebörger, I. The interface between managerial and political literacies in the South African Parliament. Paper presented at LSSA/SAALA/SAALT/EPIP Joint Annual Conference, Grahamstown, 26-29 June 2011.
- 2011: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Can contracts be both plain and precise? Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 29(4), 483-504.
- 2012: Siebörger, I. The battle of the black box: axiological condensation's role in building procedural knowledge in the South African parliament. Paper presented at International Systemic Functional Congress 39, Sydney, 16-20 July 2012.
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