Browsing by Author "Dyers, Charlyn"
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Reading the Linguistic landscape: Women, literacy and citizenship In One South African township
Williams, Meggan Serena (University of Western Cape, 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 ... -
Spinning the truth on social media: A textual analysis of health-related television advertisements
Isaacs, Nicole (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 ... -
Transcending disadvantage: life-histories of learners at a township school in South Africa
Ntete, Susan (University of the Western Cape, 2008)This is a study of the discourses of empowerment and disempowerment that emerge from the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of life-histories written by two classes of Grade 11 high school learners in a township school in ... -
The transformation and reshaping of South African languages via cell-phone messaging: sms speak as a local practice
Davids, Gaironesa (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 ... -
Twitter as an influence on the quality of online interpersonal relationships and language use
America, Kirby (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 ... -
Youth development through intercultural performance: A case study from Wesbank Arts and Culture Group, South Africa
Popova, Vlada (University of the Western Cape, 2005)The research took place while the author worked as a volunteer theatre practitioner with the Arts and Culture Group in Wesbank township near Kuils River, Cape Town, South Africa. This organisation was founded in 2002 and ...