Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Linguistics, Language and Communication) by Author "Banda, Felix"
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Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes across space and time in the public railway system in South Africa: A multisemiotic analysis
Johnson, Ian Lyndon (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 ... -
A multisemiotic discourse analysis of race in apartheid South Africa: The case of Sandra Laing
Ferris, Fiona Severiona (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 ... -
Negotiation of identities and language practices among Cameroonian immigrants in Cape Town
Mai, Magdaline Mbong (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is an exploration of the historical, socio-cultural, economic, and political settings in which identities are negotiated and performed among Cameroonian immigrants in Cape Town. Focusing on language as localized ... -
An optimality theoretic account and systemic functional linguistics analysis of the acquisition of cicewa idiom interpretation by cicewa speaking children in Malawi
Kamanga, Mervis (University of the Western Cape, 2014)This research is in the area of child language acquisition, especially, acquisition of figurative language. It investigates how native Cicewa speaking children learn to interpret Cicewa idioms. This is done through examination ... -
Reimagining diversity in post-apartheid Observatory, Cape Town: a discourse analysis
Peck, Amiena (University of the Western Cape, 2012)The focus of the thesis is conceptually-based and problematizes the notion of a transformed society while addressing and evaluating its meaning in the multicultural post-apartheid neighbourhood of Observatory, Cape Town. ... -
A social semiotic analysis of mini-bus taxis as mobilescapes in Cape Town
Matsabisa, Mathapelo (University of the Western Cape, 2020)Linguistic Landscape (LL) is a rapidly growing area of investigation that concerns itself with the attention to language, cultural objects and images displayed in public spaces. Prompted by caveats of the earlier traditional ... -
A social semiotic approach to multimodality in the Vagina Varsity YouTube campaign series
Roux, Shanleigh Dannica (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study investigated the semiotic resources used by Vagina Varsity, a campaign by sanitary towel brand Libresse on the social media platform YouTube to construct meanings around the female body. Vagina Varsity is a South ... -
Social structuring of language and the mobility of semiotic resources across the linguistic landscapes of Zambia: A multimodal analysis
Jimaima, Hambaba (University of the Western Cape, 2016)The current study framed as Social Structuring of Language and the Mobility of Semiotic Resources across the Linguistic Landscapesof Zambia: A Multimodal Analysis, is situated in Lusaka and Livingstone and their selected ... -
A sociolinguistic and multisemiotic analysis of mobility and identities in Hangberg, Hout bay
Witbooi, Sharmaine (University of Western Cape, 2021)The thesis is titled a Sociolinguistic and Multisemiotic Analysis of Mobility and Identities in Hangberg, Hout Bay. The guiding idea of this research project is to explore the contesting social and semiotic processes of ... -
A study of dialectal and inter-linguistic variations of Khoekhoegowab: towards the determination of the standard orthography
Fredericks, Niklaas Johannes (2013)Nama is a Khoekhoe-language variety spoken in more than three countries namely Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Angola. The language was previously called the Nama language, however, for pragmatic reasons, to cater for ... -
A study of the ideational metafunction in Achebe’s things fall apart: A monogeneric corpus-based analysis
Kapau, Humphrey M. (University of Western Cape, 2021)This study investigates the ideational metafunction in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in order to explore the characterisation of Okonkwo, Unoka, Ezinma, Ekwefi and Mr. Brown. The study confines itself to the following objectives, ... -
A taxonomy of problems in arabic-english Translation: a systemic functional Linguistics approach Tawffeek abdou
Mohammed, Tawffeek Abdou Saeed (University of the Western Cape, 2011)Working with Arab students pursuing a degree in English Language and Translation at the Taiz University, Republic of Yemen, has brought to the researcher‟s attention a number of errors or problems encountered in Arabic ... -
Textuality in near-synonyms translations of the Holy Qurʾān into English
Al-Sowaidi, Belqes Saif Abdulelah (University of the Western Cape, 2011)The Holy Qurʾān, like the Bible, is an acknowledged literary masterpiece. Its linguistic and aesthetic vivacity with an amalgam of religious beliefs, moral values, religious social orthodoxy and historical backgrounds pose ... -
Textuality in near-synonyms translations of the Holy QurʾᾹn into english
Sowaidi, Belqes Saif Abdulelah A.L. (2011)The Holy Qurʾān, like the Bible, is an acknowledged literary masterpiece. Its linguistic and aesthetic vivacity with an amalgam of religious beliefs, moral values, religious social orthodoxy and historical backgrounds pose ... -
The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
Mawadza, Aquilina (University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis is a multimodal discourse analysis of the media representations of Zimbabwean immigrants in the South African media. The aim of the investigation is to illustrate how Zimbabwean immigration and Zimbabwean ...