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Doing friendship: storytelling and playfulness in casual conversational discourse
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
This study explores the linguistic construction of interpersonal relationships, specifically friendship. Although we have no control over which families we are born into, we can choose who can be our friend and unlike ...
The semiotics of the mosque and its impact on self-perceptions of the feminine body
(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 ...
“We shouldn’t stay in our little bubble… we need to go and swim a bit in other bubbles” an exploration of the theoretical, pedagogical and social dimensions of functional multilingual learning in a Brussels primary school.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Background: I begin this thesis by completing the original quotation that lends itself to the title. It came from Myriam (a pseudonym), a ten-year-old girl born in Brussels to Ethiopian parents. She used a mix of French, ...