Senior Lecturer 

PhD (Rhodes)
Email: ian.sieborger@ru.ac.za

See my articles about my research on South African news discourses in the Mail & Guardian: https://mg.co.za/author/ian-sieborger/

Research interests:

• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Legitimation Code Theory
• Media discourse
• Political discourse
• Linguistic ethnography
• Sign Language linguistics

Modules taught:

• Linguistics 1 Language in the Media
• Linguistics 2 Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Linguistics 3 Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Linguistics 3 Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics
• Postgraduate Language and Knowledge
• Postgraduate Investigation of Interpersonal Meaning
   

Publications:

PhD thesis:

• 2018: Siebörger, I. Political constellations: an analysis of the use of language in positioning South African political parties in the Daily Sun. Unpublished PhD thesis. Makhanda: Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.

Book chapter:

• 2015: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa. In Dedaic, M. (ed.), Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African Political Discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  43-66.

Journal articles:

• 2023: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. "Eye on the big prize!": Iconizing the Democratic Alliance in the Daily Sun. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 66, 47-86.
• 2022: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging. Text & Talk, 43(2), 211-234.
• 2022: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 40(2), 145-161.
• 2017: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. We're talking about semantics here: axiological condensation in the South African parliament. Functions of Language 24(2). 196–233.
  
• 2017: Köhlo, M., Siebörger, I. and Bennett, W. A perfect end: A study of syllable codas in South African Sign Language. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 52, 127-156.
• 2016: De Barros, C. and Siebörger, I. Sentential negation in South African Sign Language: A case study. Literator, 37(2).
• 2015: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. Resemiotizing concerns from constituencies in the South African parliament. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 33(2), 171-197.
• 2015: Siebörger, I., Van der Merwe, K. and Adendorff, R.D. Informed Interdependence: A model for collaboration in fostering communicative competencies in a Commerce curriculum. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 33(1), 81-98.
  
• 2015: Lauriks, S., Siebörger, I. and De Vos, M. "Ha! Relationships? I only shout at them!" Strategic management of discordant rapport in an African small business context Journal of Politeness Research, 11(1), 7-39.
• 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.
• 2009: Siebörger, I. and Adendorff, R.D. 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.

 Conference presentations:

• 2024: Siebörger, I. Using constellations to understand political stances: Positioning SA’s Democratic Alliance. Paper presented at the 5^th International Legitimation Code Theory Conference, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 17 January 2024.
• 2023: Siebörger, I. A revolution in decline: Iconization in the media statements of the African National Congress in South Africa. Paper presented at the Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference 2023, online, 16 November 2023.
• 2022: Siebörger, I. A family affair: Iconization and the jailing of former South African president Jacob Zuma. Paper presented at European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference 2022, online, 26 August 2022.
• 2022: Knoetze, R., Clarence, S., Van Heerden, M., Carver, M. and Siebörger, I. Axiology in action: tacit but noisy. Panel discussion at Legitimation Code Theory 3.5 Conference, online, 18-20 January 2022.
• 2021: Siebörger, I. Covid-19 news reporting in South Africa: a phylogenetic view. Paper presented at 1st International Online Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference, 16-19 November 2021. 
• 2019: Siebörger, I. A translation device for axiological-semantic density in Daily Sun articles. Paper presented at Legitimation Code Theory Conference 3, Johannesburg, 1-5 July 2019.
• 2018: Siebörger, I. Political positioning in financial news: the case of South Africa’s Business Day. Paper presented at International Congress of Linguists 20, Cape Town, 2-6 July 2018.
• 2017: Siebörger, I. Political constellations in South Africa’s Daily Sun. Paper presented at Legitimation Code Theory Conference 2, Sydney, Australia, 3-7 July 2017.
• 2017: Siebörger, I. Prosodies of political transformation in South Africa’s Daily Sun. Paper presented at International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress 2017, Wollongong, Australia, 10-14 July 2017.
• 2015: Siebörger, I. Appraisal and axiological semantic density: using Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory to investigate political positioning. Paper presented at International Systemic Functional Congress 42, Aachen, Germany, 27-31 July 2015.
• 2015: Siebörger, I. Using Axiological Semantic Density and Appraisal to investigate political positioning. Paper presented at Legitimation Code Theory Colloquium 1, Cape Town, 17-19 June 2015.
• 2013: Siebörger, I. Towards an English – South African Sign Language (SASL) Machine Translation System: Gender Distinction in SASL Kinship and Career Terms. Paper presented at LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Joint Annual Conference, Stellenbosch, 1-4 July 2013.
• 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.
• 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. 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.
• 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.

Workshops:

• 2019: Siebörger, I. Introduction to Specialization.  Workshop presented at Legitimation Code Theory Conference 3, Johannesburg, 1-5 July 2019.

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