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Review of Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Spaceby Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow
(CMDR, 2015)
Although the volume was published
in 2010, it still remains one of the
most important contributions to a new
field of enquiry in the study of language
and signage in public spaces initially
conceptualised and ...
Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus
(UNISA, 2015)
Globally and locally, research conducted with young people about safety on university campuses
focuses primarily on risk and danger, particularly sexual danger. In this body of scholarship, the
voices of young people are ...
Teaching Masculinities in a South African Classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In terms of gender equity the first two decades of South African democracy have seen
substantial change - at least where legislation is concerned. In terms of daily lived realities
however, such change seems to have had ...
The University of Western Cape Project on Ecclesiology and Ethics
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
In its simplest terms, the tension between ecclesiology and ethics is between what the
church is and what it does, between what it is supposed to be and what it is supposed
to do, between what it believes about itself ...
'And I have been told that there is nothing fun about having sex while you are still in high school': Dominant discourses on women's sexual practices and desires in Life Orientation programmes at school
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Young women's sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary
South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based
violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to ...
Ecclesiology and ethics: a critical self-reflection
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Welcome to you all at this celebratory conference that urges us to reflect on the past,
our present, and the future, especially of theological education within a secular state.
Perhaps your next conference theme should ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Poof! a'm heppily saving the Lord...": multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This paper explores the use of punctuation, capitalisation, linguistic forms and
images in the construction of evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the
University of the Western Cape. Of particular interest ...
Doing politics in the recent Arab uprisings: Towards a political discourse analysis of the Arab Spring slogans
(Brill publishers, 2015)
The present paper aims to analyse a number of those slogans collected from the sit-in quarters in Egypt,
Libya and Yemen. Using political discourse analysis, it unravels various typical discourse structures and
strategies ...