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Abstraction as a limit to semiosis
(De Gruyter, 2013)
In highly evolved culture, discourse is made up of complexes of implicit
and explicit inter-textual relations, which form the meanings for new signifiers.
Meanings for common abstract nouns are derived from the modeling ...
Decolonization of a special type: rethinking Cold War history in Southern Africa
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Introduction: This special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories speaks to this imbalance,
contributing in small measure to a recent turn in Cold War studies that has
sought to incorporate regional perspectives ...
Pedagogical translanguaging and the construction of science knowledge in a multilingual South African classroom: Challenging monoglossic/post-colonial orthodoxies
(Routledge, 2019)
The majority of learners in South African schools are African language
speakers, yet the dominance of English in the political economy has
meant that schools choose to switch to English medium instruction
by Grade 4, ...
Speak out on poverty: Hearing, inaudibility, and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa
(WILEY, 2019)
In 1998, Speak Out on Poverty held hearings across South Africa shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) completed eighteen months of highly publicized, nationwide hearings at which victims testified. ...
Extending boundaries: Team teaching to embed information literacy in a university module
(UNISA, 2020)
In today’s knowledge-based economy, the role of universities in preparing
students to be information literate and independent thinkers and researchers is
crucial. Information literacy (IL) skills enable students to become ...
Performing rap ciphas in late-modern Cape Town: Extreme locality and multilingual citizenship
(Brill, 2010)
The study of hip-hop in Cape Town, and indeed South Africa, has traditionally focused on the narratives and poetics of resistance, race and counter-hegemonic agency in the context of apartheid
and the early days of ...
Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(UNICAMP, 2020)
These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of
colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of
a rampant global neoliberal and ...
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the
importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies
to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...
Now into big strides: report on statutory status for the South African Library and Information Services sector
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2012)
The road to acquiring statutory status for the Library and Information Services (LIS) sector in South Africa has been traversed numerous times over the last sixty to seventy years. In more recent years, there has been ...
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century
travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the
21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ...