Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Linguistics, Language and Communication) by Author "Stroud, Christopher"
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Beyond the glass ceiling: Towards a multi-sensory definition of functional literacy
Odendal, Matthys Johannes (University of the Western Cape, 2017)The world is becoming increasingly visual (Kress, 2009:1).The visually literate viewer should be able to gather data, place it in context, and determine its validity. A huge visual world opened up for the users of new ... -
A critical analysis of colonial and postcolonial discourses and representations of the people of Mozambique in the Portuguese newspaper ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’ from 1970-1980
Da Costa, Dinis Fernando (University of the Western Cape, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to probe how Mozambican people were represented or constructed in the colonial and post-colonial periods through the columns of the Portuguese newspaper, ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’. The study ... -
Exploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission: a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzania
Lipembe, Pembe Peter Agustini (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The study has several implications; for general theoretical traditions it highlights the point that ambivalent attitudes and incomplete language use are responsible for gradual language decline. Previous studies while ... -
Investigating Kiswahili academic literacy: the case of two primary and two secondary schools in Morogoro region, Tanzania
Shumbusho, George N. (University of the Western Cape, 2009)The purpose of the current study was to examine whether pupils/students master academic literacy and if various genres are taught appropriately. In other words whether pupils/students master academic literacy in a way that ... -
Language in education policy and literacy acquisition in multilingual Uganda: a case study of the urban district of Kampala
Nankindu, Prosperous (University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis is concerned with Language in Education Policy (LiEP) and literacy acquisition in multilingual Uganda with the urban district of Kampala as the case study. Specifically, the study investigates the implementation ... -
Multilingualism in late-modern Cape Town : a focus on Popular Spaces of Hip-Hop and Tshisa-Nyama
Williams, Quentin E. (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 ... -
Promoting health citizenship and multilingualism in the health insurance industry
Thutloa, Alfred Mautsane (University of the Western Cape, 2018)The thesis explores the role of semiotic structuring of health information in relation to language, multimodality and health literacy and the affordances for agentive participation among consumers of two leading South ... -
Semiotics of spatial citizenship: Place, race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa
Mpendukana, Sibonile (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This thesis uses the work of Frantz Fanon as a perspective to anchor an analysis of semiotic material deployed by students during the #Shackville protests at the University of Cape Town in 2016. Through the notion of ... -
The semiotics of the mosque and its impact on self-perceptions of the feminine body
Shaikjee, Mooniq (University of the Western Cape, 2023)From its inception, the primary focus of the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has been the interplay between language and space, or language on display. Recently, however, scholars have begun to consider the human ...