Browsing Department of Linguistics, Language and Communication by Subject "Semiotic remediation"
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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 ... -
Remediation and intertextuality in Garner's 'politically correct' representation of Cinderella
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Fairy tales have been changing continuously. From the likes of the Greek and Chinese versions of the Cinderella tale, Cinderella has been transformed into other versions. Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm had their ... -
Resemiotization and discourse practices in selected television advertisements in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This study demonstrates how advertisers re-voice and re-perform others' gestures and actions (Prior and Hengst, 2010). The focus is on the mobility of semiosis across boundaries and practices. It uses Multimodal Discourse ...