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The conceptual evolution in Linguistics implications for the study of Kaaps
(University of the Westen Cape, 2020)
zaAbstractAs an academic discipline, Linguistics - the scientific study of language - is associated with a range of concepts. Students of Linguistics are traditionally introduced to these concepts in their first year of ...
Space/place matters
(CMDR 2017, 2017)
This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ...
Queer studies and religion in Southern Africa: The production of queer Christian subjects
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The question of how to write about queer Africa has been a significant debate in scholarship over the last decade. One of the key emerging areas, in the development of ‘queer Africa scholarship’ has been through the framing ...
Schooling Superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
(CMDR, 2015)
This study is a working paper which addresses the need for the accommodation of linguistic diversity and mixed linguistic repertoires in the classroom context, due to the rise ...
The importance of unimportant language
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In a recent paper, the Australian historian, Martyn Lyons (2013), reviews his attempts to study ‘history from below’, using what can be called grassroots writing by French and ...
Re-imagining the Writing Workshop: The Creation of Multilingual, Collaborative Poetry
(University of the Werstern Cape, 2019)
“This string picture reminds me of a children’s game, called Cat’s Cradle, which you play with pieces of coloured string held between your fingers, and which you use to make different patterns by moving your fingers together ...
‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through
which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows
how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank ...
Project proposal for Mellon Supra-Institutional project on the decolonial turn (unsettling paradigms) – 2018.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This is a proposal text submitted to the Mellon Foundation entitled "Languages and Literacies in Higher Education: Reclaiming voices from the south", to secure funding for the module.
Shades,voice and mobility: Afar pastoralist and Rift Valley com- munities (re)interpreting literacy and linguistic practices
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In this paper, narrative data from remote communities in Ethiopia reveal in intimateways how ‘linguistic citizenship’ (Stroud 2001) is claimed and exercised to resisteducational decisions which are insensitive to the rhythms ...
Multilingualism and local literacy practices in Ethiopia: Language contact in regulated and unregulated spaces
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
The study of the linguistic landscape has provided a new dimension to theories and issues related to multilingualism, including language policy. In this growing field of inquiry, however, not enough attention has been given ...