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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 ...
Der Aspekt der Einfühlungsästhetik in André Brinks The Other Side of Silence
(Peter Lang, 2014)
There are many opinions about what constitutes a postcolonial novel. The act of
representation is part of this controversy: which voices should be represented by the
narrator and which should remain silent? This aspect ...
Use of web 2.0 technologies by library and information science students
(UNISA Press, 2016)
The research reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by library and information science (LIS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Blumer and Katz’s Uses and ...
Challenges in digitising liberation archives: a case study
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)
The article reports on a study of the challenges facing a liberation archive which is attempting to digitise its collections and of how the Archive has responded to the challenges. The article is framed by the critical ...
Reconsidering a transplant: A response to Wagner
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
Nils-Frederic Wagner takes issue with my argument that influential critics of “transplant” thought experiments make two cardinal mistakes. He responds that the mistakes I identify are not mistakes at all. The mistakes are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Facing the stranger in the mirror: Staged complicities in recent South African performances
(Routledge, 2011)
The staging of complicity has developed into one of the most prevalent trends in
recent South Africa theatre. The audience may become aware of their own
complicity in injustice, or complicity may feature as a subject to ...
Use of Web 2.0 by students in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at Mzuzu University, Malawi
(AOSIS, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Over the years, advancements in Internet technologies have led to the emergence
of new technologies such as Web 2.0, which have taken various sectors including higher
education by storm. Web 2.0 technologies ...