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Negotiating race in post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(De Gruyter, 2018)
Contemporary scholarship on race investigates how racism is deeply embedded in everyday norms and practices in ways which subtly, even unwittingly, serve to reproduce white domination. In South Africa, like many other ...
Applying linguistics: Developing cognitive skills through multimedia
(Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, 2003)
This paper examines the effectiveness of linguistic analysis in developing scientific thinking
skills and scientific attitudes. It reports on a project established at a South Africa university
in South Africa which engaged ...
Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa.
(Routledge, 2001)
The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...
Negotiating race and belonging in a post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2014)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity has
continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid
South Africa. This paper explores how race is ...
Transitivity and the narrator's role in selected TRC testimonies
(Stellenbosch University, 2006)
This paper seeks to explore how two different narrators at a hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) represent the same set of events. With the use of analytical concepts and frameworks drawn ...
A cross-linguistic analysis of the writing of prospective first year students in Xhosa and English.
(University of Stellenbosch, 2002)
This article aims to characterize typical linguistic and discourse features of academic writing in Xhosa and English among prospective Xhosa-speaking students at the University of the Western Cape so as to account for ...
Cyber socialising: emerging genres and registers of intimacy
(Taylor & FrancisUNISA Press, 2013)
The popularity of digital media networks for socialising among the youth is well
documented. Much has been written on the emerging norms of textese, the global
shorthand for chatting. However, becoming a proficient user ...