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Een toeristische brochure: een oefening in persuasieve teksten: Casus: de Nederlandstalige brochure over Zagreb
197-223Views:148Persuasive documents are defined as documents that transfer the information to the reader with the purpose of influencing their attitude. Travel brochures, like the brochure of the city of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, also belong to this category. Since tourism plays an important role in Croatia’s economy and since every year the number of Dutch speaking tourists visiting Zagreb is growing, a two-part study was conducted to test whether the Dutch translation of the brochure fulfils its purpose, i.e. whether it is convincing or not. The first part of the study was carried out using Hoeken’s (Het ontwerp van overtuigende teksten) pros-and-cons method. Six subjects participated in the study: three from the Netherlands and three from Flanders, Belgium. The second part of the study consists of authors’ analysis of the brochure based on Hoeken’s method as well. Finally, advice is given on how the brochure could be improved.
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‘Historiese improvisasie’: Verhalende geschiedschrijving in de roman Skepelinge. Aanloop tot ‘n roman (2017) van Karel Schoeman
117-142Views:35Karel Schoeman’s fictional historiography Skepelinge. Aanloop tot ‘n roman (2017) offers
an alternative representation of the early colonial history at Cape of Good Hope with its
pronounced emphasis on marginalized individuals or groups and unrealized social
potentials of the (hybridized) colonial society. By activating forgotten or concealed
narratives and alternative visions of history and by writing from the position of historical
‘losers’, the text also contains an anti-colonial potential and reveals a constant ideological
struggle in the historiographical representations. The novel therefore fits into the postapartheid literary trend of rewriting (national) history, parodizing canonical texts and
criticizing the ideological strongholds of Afrikaner nationalism.