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Analyzing university language policies in South Africa: Critical discourse and policy analysis frameworks
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
At the dawn of democracy, Higher Education in South Africa was in dire need of change. One of the essential initiatives in response to transformation in Higher Education was the mandate from the Ministry of Education for ...
Towards urban multilingualism: investigating the linguistic landscape of the public rail transport system in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This study explores the linguistic landscape of Metrorail in the Western Cape, South
Africa. The Western Cape is a diverse, multicultural society with a history of
colonialism and imperialism. For this reason, the ...
Reading the linguistic landscape: women, literacy and citizenship in one South African township
(2011)
The purpose of this study was two-fold: firstly, to do a multimodal analysis of the
multilingual signage, advertisements and graffiti present on different surfaces in the
main business hub of a multicultural community ...
The transformation and reshaping of South African languages via cell-phone messaging: sms speak as a local practice
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
South Africa is a diverse, multilingual country with a majority of its youth owning or using cellular phone technologies. The cell phone interaction between multilingual individuals from different linguistic and cultural ...
Stylisation of identities in online discourses related to The Spear on Sowetan LIVE
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study focuses on a story featured on Sowetan LIVE, one of South Africa’s online newspapers. The flexibility of the mode in which the newspaper is produced, enables users to comment on its articles as they are published. ...
A platform to protest: A virtual ethnography of the UWC Fees WILL Fall Linguistic Landscape.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
The year 2015 and 2016 marked a period of heightened turmoil for the universities in the
Western Cape. The three leading institutions in the province were each affected by student-led
protest during that year. The Rhodes ...
A hashtag analysis of racial discourses within #ColouredExcellence: Case of Wayde van Niekerk
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The research study takes into account the apartheid legacy of racial hierarchization and ‘separate development’ (cf Raynard, 2012) which penetrated all aspects of social life. Particularly, it is the sporting domain and ...
An exploration of the link between selected women’s discourses and literacy resources in the working class township settlement of Wesbank, South Africa
(2010)
South Africa became a globally recognised democratic country in need of a development agenda after its first democratic elections were held in 1994. Democratising South Africa, however, requires rigorous attempts to open ...
Telling tales of identity: an interpretation of women's narratives
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This paper examines selected discourses found in the journals kept by 21 working-class women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal aim of the paper is to examine how emotion, voice ...
A language in decline ? :a constrastive study of the use of, and motivation and de-motivation for, learning Afrikaans among two groups of learners at an English medium high school in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Afrikaans in practice replaced Dutch and became one of South Africa's official languages (along with English) from 1925. It reached the apex of its development and influence during the years of Nationalist party rule and ...