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A systemic functional linguistics (SFL) analysis of Yoruba students’ narratives of identity at three Western Cape universities
(University of Western Cape, 2012)
There has been a great deal of research exploring Halliday’s (1978, 1994, 2004)Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) approach. However, there has been little work that specifically targets SFL to explore African discourse. ...
Twitter as an influence on the quality of online interpersonal relationships and language use
(2013)
Social networking sites are used on a daily basis, to communicate with friends we have known for quite some time as well as make new friends from all over the globe - a global phenomenon. According to Aparicio (2011) the ...
A systemic functional analysis of two Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimonies: transitivity and genre
(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 ...
Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
(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 ...
Appraisal, identity and gendered discourse in toilet graffit : a study in transgressive semiotics
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This research is interested in the linguistic choices people use to express and negotiate subjective, inter-subjective and ideological positions through the graffiti within the confines of selected men's and women's toilets ...
A discourse analysis of code-switching practices among Angolan migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
In this thesis, I explore the code-switching practices of long-term Angolans migrants in Cape Town when they interact with those who have been here for a much shorter period. In my Honours research essay, I revealed a ...
Schooling superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This thesis takes on a non-essentialist view of language by studying the borrowing of
linguistic features across languages as natural, everyday language practices. More
specifically, this research identifies the need for ...
Youth multilingualism and popular culture interactions at His People Pentecostal Church
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Youth multilingualism is an overarching notion that accounts for the dynamic macroand
micro-linguistic practices and interactions in contexts and spaces redefined by
cultural practices. It makes contributions to interactional ...
The semiotic signature of transformation of political parties in South Africa: A multimodal analysis of selected Democratic Alliance texts
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Social semiotics (Halliday, 1978 and van Leeuwen, 2006) makes us acutely aware that social
communication like public speaking often takes place through non-verbal modes (such as
images, and bodily attributes), in combination ...
The literacy orientation of preschool children in a multilingual environment: the case of post-apartheid Manenberg
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis is the result of an ethnographic study of the multilingual literacy practices of a group of families in their particular spaces within the urban context of the community of Manenberg, with the specific view of ...