Browsing Magister Artium - MA (Linguistics, Language and Communication) by Author "Stroud, Christopher"
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Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
Jantjies, Nomxolisi (2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices.
Jantjies, Nomxolisi (University of the Western Cape, 2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
Drag kings in Cape Town: space and the performance of gendered subjectivities
Shaikjee, Mooniq (University of the Western Cape, 2014)The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ... -
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
Van Niekerk, Lauren (University of the Western Cape, 2022)This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ... -
The literacy orientation of preschool children in a multilingual environment: the case of post-apartheid Manenberg
Jegels, Dmitri Garcia Aloysius (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is the result of an ethnographic study of the multilingual literacy practices of a group of families in their particular spaces within the urban context of the community of Manenberg, with the specific view of ... -
Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation
Mpendukana, Sibonile (University of the Western Cape, 2009)Much language planning and policy in recent years in South Africa tends to overlook linguistic situations and practices, and focuses on notions of top-down language policy and implementation. This does not fit easily with ... -
Schooling superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
Madell, Madelynne (University of the Western Cape, 2017)This thesis takes on a non-essentialist view of language by studying the borrowing of linguistic features across languages as natural, everyday language practices. More specifically, this research identifies the need for ... -
Social networking among UWC students: instant messaging genres and registers
Dalwai, Nausheena Begum (University of the Western Cape, 2015)Contemporary research has pointed to the importance of social media in the lives of young people today. This project aims to explore the emerging discourse conventions and generic structures of chat conversations on social ... -
Telling tales of identity: an interpretation of women's narratives
Barthus, Tatum Terri (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 ...