Department of Linguistics, Language and Communication

A platform to protest: A virtual ethnography of the UWC Fees WILL Fall Linguistic Landscape.

Oliver, Candice Frances (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 ...

Some sociolinguistic aspects of/ second language teaching and learning of Xhosa

Zotwana, Sydeny Zanemvula (University of Western Cape, 1987)

Chapter 1 deals with the theoretical issues involved in the study of language as a social phenomenon. It traces the development of the sub-discipline of sociolinguistics and the contribution of sociologists and ...

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 ...

Media representations of reporting techniques of four news houses related to two mediated events during the Trump administration

Bassier, Qanita (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.

Forbes, Coral Joan (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 ...

Reading and writing across cultures: Using a social literacies approach to account for the experiences of Libyan students in South African higher education

Burka, Turkeya Burka Ali (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 ...

Discourse analysis of narratives of Malay heritage in gentrified Bo-Kaap, Cape Town

Albghil, Samera (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 ...

A social semiotic analysis of healthcare signage at selected public and private hospitals in the Western Cape

Hartman, Geraldine (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 ...

The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims 1815 to 1915

Davids, Achmat (University of the Western Cape, 1991)

This study looks at the Afrikaans of the Cape Muslim Community from 1815 to 1915. In the process of this examination various aspects of this variety of Afrikaans are focussed upon. The basic objective, however, is to ...

Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.

Shibani, Fathia El (University of the Western Cape, 2019)

This study is an investigation into the biliteracy skills (in Arabic and English) employed by Libyan students at the University of the Western Cape to gain their academic success. Nowadays, international students form a ...

The language of forms: A discourse analysis of municipal application forms.

Geldenhuys, Natasjia (University of the Western Cape, 2019)

This thesis focuses on the genre of municipal documents (application forms) and the variety of written and visual languages that make up their corpus to reveal the various lexical semantics used in the forms as communication ...

From monolingual to translanguaging classroom practice at two Delft primary schools

Solomons, Tasneem (University of the Western Cape, 2018)

Terminology such as mother tongue, first language and second language remain prevalent in South African schools’ language policies. These monolingual terms seem out of place within our multilingual landscape (Banda, 2018). ...

‘Taking hold’ of mobile phone stories in a Cape Flats reading club

Bangani, Zandile (University of the Western Cape, 2019)

This ethnographically-orientated intervention explored how members of a Cape Flats reading club “took hold” (Street, 2009) of digital literacy in their engagement with online fictional stories accessed by a mobile phone. ...

A social semiotic approach to multimodality in the Vagina Varsity YouTube campaign series

Roux, Shanleigh Dannica (University of the Western Cape, 2019)

This study investigated the semiotic resources used by Vagina Varsity, a campaign by sanitary towel brand Libresse on the social media platform YouTube to construct meanings around the female body. Vagina Varsity is a South ...

A hashtag analysis of racial discourses within #ColouredExcellence: Case of Wayde van Niekerk

Toyer, Zaib (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 ...

“I am a queen”: (Re)fashioning African female identities in everyday storytelling

Awungjia, Ajohche Nkemngu (University of the Western Cape, 2018)

This study aims to add to the rich body of work which explores our understanding of identity performances in narratives. It explores how a close knit group of five female friends use narrative structure and strategies ...

A functional terminological analysis of a “Multilingual parliamentary/ Political terminology list” of the Department of Arts and Culture

Majozi, Joyce Jabulile (University of the Western Cape, 2018)

South Africa’s National Language Policy Framework was formulated in 2003. The framework was designed to create an enabling environment for the development of instruments and initiatives intended to promote multilingualism ...