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The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial ...
A social semiotic analysis of healthcare signage at selected public and private hospitals in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The study focuses on the application and use of linguistic landscapes in health institutions. Furthermore, the research is centred on a social semiotic analysis of the healthcare signage at selected public and private ...
Discourse analysis of narratives of Malay heritage in gentrified Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Bo-Kaap (BK) is a neighbourhood in Cape Town which has long been home to a predominantly Muslim community with deep ties to the area’s colonial and slave history. In recent years, BK has become a hotbed for developers ...
Can Armstrong cope with Libet’s challenge?
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
According to our ordinary conception of voluntary action, our actions are the causal result of conscious intentions. To take a very basic example: I wish to take a sip of coffee, and I therefore reach out and take hold of ...
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 ...
The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
I read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs ...
Called and Queer Exploring the lived experiences of queer clergy in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(university of western cape, 2020)
In South Africa anti-queer attitudes are propped up by religious moral claims and by strong assertions that queer sexualities are un-African and a secular Western import. This study contributes to the growing body of ...
Media representations of reporting techniques of four news houses related to two mediated events during the Trump administration
(2020)
Media representations, embedded in reported media events, play a pivotal role in the propagation of beliefs, ideologies and establishing the status quo. The media events are given coverage by news reports on newsworthy ...
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 ...
Frameworks of representation: A design History of the district six museum in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central ...