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Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
(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 language factor in students’ experience of assessments: A case study from the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Recent statistics show that 25% of university students in South Africa drop out in their first
year of study (Stats SA, 2018). This figure is all the more worrisome when older but still
relevant statistics are considered, ...
Talk and play as interactions among bilingual children in Beacon Valley, Mitchell’s Plain
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This study investigates talk and play as interactions in a “small context” among so-called coloured bilingual children and their interactions amongst themselves in the community of Beacon Valley (Mitchell’s Plain). One of ...
Branding and material culture of multilingualism and identities in linguistic landscapes in Langa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Very few studies of linguistic landscape (LL) have been conducted in townships, rural areas,
and Africa in general. The focus is and has been on major city centres and their surroundings.
Therefore, this study seeks to ...
The sociosyntax of verb-second and verb-third placement in Manenberg Kaaps
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The primary goal of this study is to provide a detailed and sharply focused sociosyntactic
description and analysis of an aspect of clausal word order variation in Kaaps. Kaaps
is a grammatically understudied, historically ...
The social semiotics of hair: re-constructing cape coloured South African female identities- the transition
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cape Coloured women have been misrepresented and misunderstood for generations as a result of apartheid and the deeply rooted ideologies at play during that time. The Coloured body was subjected to the colonial ideals of ...
Revitalization of the Urhobo language across physical and virtual spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
There is increasing interest in finding an effective revitalization system for safeguarding small and endangered languages. Therefore, this study explores the revitalization of Urhobo, an endangered minority language spoken ...
The social semiotics of hair: Re-constructing cape coloured South African female identities- the transition
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cape Coloured women have been misrepresented and misunderstood for generations as a result of apartheid and the deeply rooted ideologies at play during that time. The Coloured body was subjected to the colonial ideals of ...
Semiotic remediation as discourse practice in three Woolworths branded spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Woolworths is known as one of South Africa’s largest retailers with over 400 retail chains
across South Africa, while also expanding into other African countries and the Middle East.
This study aims to analyse the ...