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A study of the ideational metafunction in Achebe’s things fall apart: A monogeneric corpus-based analysis
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This study investigates the ideational metafunction in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in order to explore the characterisation of Okonkwo, Unoka, Ezinma, Ekwefi and Mr. Brown. The study confines itself to the following objectives, ...
An exploration of texture in Ghanaian undergraduate students’ essays
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
As an official and second language in Ghana, English is used as a medium of instruction in the Ghanaian educational setting, especially at the university level. Therefore, for Ghanaian students to go through their university ...
A social semiotic analysis of mini-bus taxis as mobilescapes in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Linguistic Landscape (LL) is a rapidly growing area of investigation that concerns itself with the attention to language, cultural objects and images displayed in public spaces. Prompted by caveats of the earlier traditional ...
A sociolinguistic and multisemiotic analysis of mobility and identities in Hangberg, Hout bay
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
The thesis is titled a Sociolinguistic and Multisemiotic Analysis of Mobility and Identities in Hangberg, Hout Bay. The guiding idea of this research project is to explore the contesting social and semiotic processes of ...
Multilingual teacher-talk in secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
It has been noted by Lin (2013) that studies on multilingual talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or ...
Reading and writing across cultures: Using a social literacies approach to account for the experiences of Libyan students in South African higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Internationalisation or the “process of integrating an international/intercultural dimension into
the teaching, research and service functions of a higher education institution” (Knight 1997:
8) has become an important ...
Siding and ‘translanguaged siding’ in lecture halls: an ethnography of communication at the University of the Western Cape.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The study set out to investigate siding and translanguaged siding as an under-researched student-to-student communication which happen parallel to teaching. Lemke (1990) defines siding as student-to-student talk while the ...