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Multilingual teacher-talk in secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
(University of Western Cape, 2021)It has been noted by Lin (2013) that studies on multilingual talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or ... -
Multilingual/multicultural aspects of visual literacy and interpretation in multimodal educational communication
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The aim of this thesis was to investigate the use of visual images in print texts produced for language teaching and learning. It tested the manner in which learners from different cultural contexts relate to selected ... -
Multilingualism and identity in new shared spaces :a study of Cameroon migrant in a primary school in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)This thesis aims to explore the ways in which space patterns regimes of language use and language attitudes among Cameroonian immigrant children in a primary school in Cape Town. The presence of migrants in any classroom ... -
Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes across space and time in the public railway system in South Africa: A multisemiotic analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)During apartheid, the infrastructure in South Africa was built by the government and was designed to keep Blacks away from White areas. This infrastructure comprised inter alia the public railway system which was intended ... -
Multilingualism in late-modern Cape Town : a focus on Popular Spaces of Hip-Hop and Tshisa-Nyama
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)In highly mobile societies, the voice and agency of speakers will differ across contexts depending on the linking of forms and functions. This thesis is thus about the complexities introduced to the notion of (form-function ... -
Multilingualism, linguistic landscaping and translation of isiXhosa signage at three Western Cape Universities
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Promotion and practice of multilingualism is of infinite need in a country with such history as South Africa. The need to promote, preserve and maintain languages grows each and every day due to the possibility of languages ... -
A multimodal analysis of linguistic landscapes in and around Botswana parliament
(2009)This study investigates the use of language and signage in and around Parliament of Botswana by drawing from Linguistic Landscapes (LL) found in the area. The main aim of this study is to explore the symbolic and functional ... -
A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This study investigates the ever-changing trends in visual texts and images used during HIV-prevention campaigns in South Africa. The aim is to evaluate and analyse the effect of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns ... -
A multimodal discourse analysis of Bodies-in- Protest on Twitter: Case of Sans Souci Girls High School
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The legacy of apartheid is one that has left traces of racial oppression and inequitable distribution of state resources across the landscape of the country. Cape Town in particular is a city of many contrasts with grand ... -
A multimodal discourse analysis of the material culture of multilingualism at three Western Cape universities
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The advent of semiotic/Linguistic Landscapes (LL) as a new sociolinguistic enquiry has received considerable attention in the field of Language and Communication Studies. Although LL studies have been done in South Africa, ... -
Multimodality and Negotiation of Cape Flats Identity in Selected Daily Voice Front pages
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)This thesis explores the social semiotic relationship of visual and verbal signs of the Daily Voice tabloid as a way to show how the social context influences meaning of the signs used in its multimodal frontpages. The ... -
Multiple perceptions (teachers’, parents’, learners’) of Somali learner acculturation in a Cape Town primary school setting
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)During the 1990s many Somali families settled in South Africa amid severe protracted inter-clan conflict in Somalia. Other Somali families migrated to the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and other ... -
A multisemiotic analysis of ‘skinscapes’ of female students at three Western Cape universities
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study used a multisemiotic/multimodal discourse analysis approach to analyze tattoos of selected female students at three Western Cape Universities: the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape ... -
A multisemiotic discourse analysis of race in apartheid South Africa: The case of Sandra Laing
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)In this thesis I investigate the reconstruction of the life history of Sandra Laing and the recreation of the apartheid context by analyzing two artefacts. These main artefact for investigation is the movie Skin, by ... -
Multispectral remote sensing of the impacts of drought and climate variability on water resources in semi-arid regions of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The occurrence of droughts is a threat to global water resources and natural ecosystems, with the impact being more profound in semi-arid environments. The frequency of droughts is likely to increase because of climate ... -
Multispectral remote sensing of vegetation responses to groundwater variability in the greater floristic region of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Groundwater dependent vegetation (GDV) communities are increasingly threatened by the transformation of the natural environment to different land use/land cover, over-exploitation of groundwater resources and the proliferation ... -
Municipal budget oversight by multiple principals: A case study of the Western Cape province
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The transformation of local government in South Africa has established a complex model of multiple principals exercising municipal budget oversight on municipal managers. However, earlier research has not sufficiently ... -
Municipal Planning By-laws and the extent to which they give effect to the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013.
(University of Western Cape, 2017)The spatial legacy created by the planning laws of the apartheid regime is still apparent in most cities and towns across South Africa. The legacy of apartheid spatial planning reveals not only planning which was undertaken ... -
Municipal regulation of food and waste pickers on landfill sites in South Africa: what should municipalities (dis)allow?
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The unemployment rate in South Africa is alarmingly high. In the year 2018, the unemployment rate was recorded at 27.2%. Many people are forced to do desperate, and even dangerous things in order to sustain themselves. ... -
Music memoir as an evocation of cultural legacy: The Zayn Adam story
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Musicians of colour are under-represented in the South African archive, in part due to the ravages of apartheid and the lack of resources to chronicle their trajectories outside of the production of their music alone. In ...