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Multilingualism and (bi)literacy development for epistemological access: Exploring students experience in the use of multilingual glossaries at a South African university
(NMMU, 2018)
This paper reports on the findings of a research project that investigated first-year students’ experiences in using multilingual glossaries. They were enrolled in an electrical engineering course at a higher education ...
Writing biology, assessing biology: The nature and effects of variation in terminology
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)
There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high ...
Multilingual examinations: towards a schema of politicization of language in end of high school examinations in sub-Saharan Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, ...
Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party
(Benjamins, 2019)
Corpus analysis has become established as an approach to the study of language
description or for applied pursuits in language teaching, terminology, and so on.
However, because of the social indexicalities of language ...
Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2013)
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one ...
Rastafarian-herbalists' enregisterment of multilingual voices in an informal marketplace
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2016)
What do we mean when we talk about "multilingual voice" in the post-apartheid sociolinguistic context of South Africa? In this paper, I explore this question by reporting on an ethnographic fieldwork project that involved ...
Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance
(American Antrhopological Association, 2015)
In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and
familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the
present article, we explore the ...
Language policy and orthographic harmonization across linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries in Southern Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2016)
Drawing on online and daily newspapers, speakers' language and
writing practices, official government documents and prescribed spelling systems in
Southern Africa, the paper explores the challenges and possibilities of ...
Renegotiating cultural practices as a result of HIV in the eastern region of Malawi
(Routledge, 2014)
A number of studies have shown that HIV awareness is very high among Malawians
and yet infection rates are rising. Local cultural practices have been identified as
contributing to this contradictory situation. Using data ...
Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
We draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among
Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to
explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at
the ...