Browsing Magister Artium - MA (Linguistics, Language and Communication) by Author "Bock, Zannie"
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Affective, cognitive and social factors affecting Japanese learners of English in Cape Town
Nitta, Takayo (University of the Western Cape, 2006)This research used diary studies and interviews with five Japanese learners of English to investigate the different affective, cognitive and social factors that affected their learning of English in Cape Town between 2004 ... -
A discourse analysis of a personal narrative told by an adolescent boy in a Cape Town children's home.
Davids, Galeema (University of the Western Cape, 2009)Storytelling serves many purposes. People often tell stories as a coping mechanism, as a way of self-representation, and as a means for self-reflection. Through stories, narrators construct identities and gain perspective ... -
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
Van Niekerk, Lauren (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ... -
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
De Vos, Grace Afton (University of the Western Cape, 2013)This research is a discourse analysis of a christian “coloured” youth group, from the area of Mitchell‘s Plain, Cape Town. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the interlocutors construct their identities ... -
“I am a queen”: (Re)fashioning African female identities in everyday storytelling
Awungjia, Ajohche Nkemngu (University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study aims to add to the rich body of work which explores our understanding of identity performances in narratives. It explores how a close knit group of five female friends use narrative structure and strategies ... -
“I felt like the words became a part of me”: South African feminist live poetry and the affective encounter
McKenzie, Jenah E (University of the Western Cape, 2023)Live poetry exists as a powerful channel through which to protest against oppressive mechanisms prevalent in society. The platform – a safe space for the voices that are often silenced in other discursive spaces – has grown ... -
Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
Bhatch, Michael Shakib (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis examines how multilingual spaces in South Africa are imagined and reconstructed through the use of scripted codeswitching in 7de Laan. It explores how the socio-political discourses and other ideologies from ... -
Shoot the Boer: a discourse analysis of online posts and related texts
Cupido, Cleo (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The controversial singing of the Shoot the Boer song by Julius Malema was a focus of media attention during the period of March 3, 2010 to September 12, 2011.This study aims to analyse the discourses participants draw on ... -
Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers
Dalwai, Nausheena Begum (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 ... -
A systemic functional analysis of two Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies: transitivity and genre
Hattingh, Nathalie (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis examines how two narrators construe their experiences of the same events differently through the linguistic choices that they make, through a systemic functional analysis, as well as a genre analysis of two ...