Mens en media: 'n Resensie-artikel oor Guido Fauconnier se boek

Abstract

Instead of focusing, as is generally the custom, on the content of an anthology, the result of selecting and collecting, this paper shifts the focus of examination to the process in a new collection of women's life writing in South Africa. The autobiographical texts will only be drawn upon for the light they throw on the anthologising process. In the new republic, given our history, the perspectival shift is of vital concern because it makes explicit what and how changes are made, particularly in accepted anthologising discursive practice, which has implications for the freedom that was won in 1994. In the course of discussion, mediating influences that play a crucial role in identity formation and their eventual playing out in discursive production will also be clarified through theory.     

Nonlinear Granger causality between oil price and stock returns in India

The nonlinear causal dimension in oil price and stock returns aspect is less explored in literature. This study provides such evidence by applying Hiemstra and Jones (1994) nonlinear Granger causality test to the VAR residuals in case of India. Our result indicates that there exists bi‐directional nonlinear causality between oil price and stock returns. It implies that the lagged information of oil price and stock returns can be able to predict each other efficiently.     

Education,human error,and road crash risk: An empirical investigation in the Indian states

This study examines the road accident rates from 29 Indian states and 6 Union Territories during 2006–2015. In this paper, we have employed several empirical techniques such as regression, generalized method of moments (GMM), and threshold regression models to examine how education and attitude of the drivers impact the road accident rates. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate that lawless driving is found to be positive and statistically significant while incorporating both state and year effects. We also find some interesting result in the context of education and road accidents. We notice positive relationship between higher education and road accident rates across Indian states, which tells us highly educated people are more prone to road accidents as compared with less educated people. In the threshold analysis, the study discovers the positive relationship between road injury and accidents caused by people with higher education, in cases of considering road injury rate from drunken driving as the threshold variable. There appears to be a large number of behavioral issues emanating from higher education, which contributes significantly to the road accident rates in the Indian states. Hence, there is a need for policy intervention.