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Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.
(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 ...
A social semiotic approach to multimodality in the Vagina Varsity YouTube campaign series
(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 ...
‘Taking hold’ of mobile phone stories in a Cape Flats reading club
(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. ...
The language of forms: A discourse analysis of municipal application forms.
(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 ...
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 ...
Analysing the discourse on corruption in presidential speeches in Nigeria, 1957- 2015: Systemic functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis frameworks
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Corruption as a concept is viewed differently by various disciplines, but there seems to be
consensus that it relates to the misuse of public office for private gain. Studies in the social
sciences, mainly political ...
The discursive construction of Kenyan ethnicities in online political talk
(UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE, 2019)
Multi-paradigmatically qualitative, and largely in the fashion of the critical theory, this study
seeks to explore how a selection of Kenyans construct, manipulate and negotiate ethnic
categories in a discussion of ...
A multimodal discourse analysis of Bodies-in- Protest on Twitter: Case of Sans Souci Girls High School
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The legacy of apartheid is one that has left traces of racial oppression and inequitable
distribution of state resources across the landscape of the country. Cape Town in particular is
a city of many contrasts with grand ...