An Analysis of South Africa's Education Policy Documents

Self-definitioin and Definition of the "Other"

The language of education policy documents indicates the nature of the society South African policymakers envisioned in a country where people from diverse background share the same geographical space. The language indicates how they perceived both themselves and the various groups. This study shows that despite political change, the style and register of the language used and the concerns underlying educational policies in South Africa are continuous and congruous.

Whereas reference is one of the types of grammatical cohesion (the others being
substitution and ellipsis, and conjunction), lexical cohesion is defined as "the
cohesive effect achieved by the selection of vocabulary" (Halliday and Hasan ...