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Reading the linguistic landscape: Women, literacy and citizenship in one South African township
(2011)
The purpose of this study was two-fold: firstly, to do a multimodal analysis of the
multilingual signage, advertisements and graffiti present on different surfaces in the
main business hub of a multicultural community ...
Bibliography Islam & biological evolution exploring classical Sunni sources and methodologies
(2010)
This research investigates, within the framework of classical Sunni Islamic scholarship,what we might expect an Islamic opinion about evolution to be,bringing together an accurate and detailed understanding of evolutionary ...
Challenges and opportunities/possibilities of implementing the Western Cape language policy
(UWC, 2014)
The principle aim of this thesis is to investigate all the challenges and opportunities/possibilities involved in realising the implementation of the
official Western Cape Language Policy (finalised in 2002). These ...
The conceptualization and application of Qabīlah (Clan) in the Somali context: A linguistic, social and political analysis of Somali media and online resources
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This thesis examines the concept of qab?lah (tribe/clan) and its social and political influence on
Somali society. It firstly looks at the general meaning of qabīlah in Arab culture and its more
specific meaning in Somali ...
Using the first language to improve Arabic-speaking students' speaking skills in English as a second language
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
For several decades since the advent of Communicative Language Teaching and the Direct
Method, using the first language (L1) in second-language (L2) teaching has been out of
favour. However, arguments for using the L1as ...
The female protagonist’s intersection with the African world of actuality in Beyala’s novel Tu T’appelleras Tanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In order to overcome the silence that had been instilled by colonialism, several postcolonial
female writers employ fiction to restore their local culture and reflect on their representation
in historical writings. For ...
Women & Leadership in Islam
(2013)
The present research examines the post-formative Islamic legal literature surrounding the question of women’s leadership to gauge whether and to what extent the development of Islamic legislation pertaining to women was ...
The Qur’ānic Sufi Hermeneutics of Shaykh Muṣṭafā’ al-‘Alāwī: A critical study of his Lubāb al- ‘Ilm Fī Sūrah al-Najm
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The main focus of this dissertation is a critical study of the Arabic text, titled:
Lubāb al ‘Ilm Fī Sūrah al-Najm (The Kernel of Knowledge in the Chapter of
the Star) by Shaykh Ahmad bin Muṣṭafā’ al-‘Alāwī.
Due to the ...
"Grammatical controversy on the temporality of the imperfect tense in the Qur’ānic text" Is it Mu’rab (declinable) or Mabnī (indeclinable)?
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This research discusses the temporality of Al-Fi’l Al-Moḍāri’ (present tense) in
Arabic in terms of structure and case endings. It also focuses on the time of the imperfect
tense and how it is affected by the Adawāt ...
An examination of the correspondence between sound and meaning in certain chapters of the holy Qur'an
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The study of sound symbolism, phonetics and semantics has been of major concern for linguists since the Greeks and the Romans in the fifth century before AD. The idea of sound symbolism - the existence of correspondence ...