Textuality in Text: A Discourse Analysis of Nelson Mandela‘s I Am the First Accused

Table 2.

Summaryof Substitution/Conjunction

Substitution

Substitution reference Line reference Substituted information
This notion 5-7 The policy of white supremacy
To do it (an African) 8 When anything has to be carried
This sort of attitude 8-9 An African to work for a white man
Like white people 11-12 That they fall in love
An area 34-35 There
Their own 36-37 House
Conjunction
Conjunction Line Reference Conjunction Reference
Because (of this sort of) 9-10 To do it for him whether he is…..
Because (they have no schools) 22-23 Children wander about the streets
But (everywhere) 26-27 Which erupts not only politically
Even though 30 House breakings and robberies
Because (without them) 38 We want equal political rights
Because (the majority of voters 39-40 This sounds revolutionary
But (this fear) 40-41 The white man fears democracy