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Violence against lesbians and (IM) possibilities for identity and politics
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In 2006 South Africa extended marriage rights to gay and lesbian citizens, further signposting their legal inclusion in the post-apartheid order. This inclusion is marked by homophobic murder, signifying the continued ...
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 ...
Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Contemporary research has pointed to the importance of social media in the lives of young people today. This project aims to explore the emerging discourse conventions and generic structures of chat conversations on social ...