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Spinning the truth on social media: A textual analysis of health-related television advertisements
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The theory of multimodality (Kress 2010; Kress and van Leeuwen 2006) has impacted major research fields like Linguistics and Education by significantly extending our understanding of what is meant by communication through ...
Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
(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 ...
Language, migration and identity: exploring the motivations of selected African migrants in learning isiXhosa in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study is an exploration of the motivations of a particular group of Cameroonian and Nigerian migrants in Cape Town for learning isiXhosa. South Africa is a multilingual and multicultural country with eleven official ...
Geological and geophysical evaluation of the Thebe field, Block XX, offshore Western Australia
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The North West Shelf of Australia is a prolific gas province. The Thebe Gas Field is situated
within the northern central Exmouth Plateau in the Northern Carnarvon Basin. The Exmouth
Plateau is a submerged continental ...
A study of dialectal and inter-linguistic variations of Khoekhoegowab: towards the determination of the standard orthography
(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 ...
Negotiating identity in multilingual parliamentary discourses in the Western Cape: a discourse analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
South Africa transitioned from an apartheid system of government, with one ruling party to a new democracy; a transition that is still currently in progress. With this transition came many new freedoms, such as the ability ...
Semiotic remediation and resemiotisation as discourse practice in Isidingo: a multi-semiotic analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The problem explored relates to the dearth in studies exploring semiotic resources other than language in the study of mediated discourses in the media; public broadcasting in particular. Gilje (2010) laments that although ...
A taxonomy of problems in arabic-english Translation: a systemic functional Linguistics approach Tawffeek abdou
(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 ...
The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
(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 ...
Drag kings in Cape Town: space and the performance of gendered subjectivities
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...