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'Kids sold, desperate moms need cash': Media representations of Zimbabwean women migrants
(Taylor & FrancisNISC, 2016)The article draws on 575 randomly selected articles from the South African Media database to explore the representation of Zimbabwean women migrants. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article shows that some ... -
“Kom Khoi San, kry trug jou land”: Disrupting White Settler Colonial Logics of Language, Race, and Land with Afrikaaps
(Wiley, 2021)This article offers a broad and deep discussion of critical issues in the study of language, race, and political economy through an analysis of the verbal art, aesthetics, and performances of South African hip hop artists. ... -
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'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ... -
Language ideology, policy and classroom practices in Oshiwambo speaking areas, Northern Namibia
(University of Western Cape, 2020)The study problematized language ideologies and policy to explore the efficacy of using English as the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) among Oshiwambo speaking learners in the Omusati region of Northern ... -
Language policy and orthographic harmonization across linguistic, ethnic and national boundaries in Southern Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2016)Drawing on online and daily newspapers, speakers' language and writing practices, official government documents and prescribed spelling systems in Southern Africa, the paper explores the challenges and possibilities of ... -
Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ... -
Learning through linguistic citizenship: finding the “I” of the essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In recent years, the South African higher education system has seen growing calls for broadened epistemic access, decolonised curricula and transformed institutions. Scholars across South Africa have taken up the challenge ... -
Legitimization and recontextualization of languages: The imbalance of powers in a multilingual landscape
(John Benjamins Publishing company, 2023)We use the uneven distribution of languages in the public spaces of the University of Zambia and the voices and narratives that emerge to argue for legitimization and recontextualization as critical components in the ... -
Linguistic citizenship as Utopia
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)A major challenge of our time is to build a life of equity in a fragmented world of globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this context, language takes on singular importance as the foremost means whereby ... -
Literacy for all? Using multilingual reading stories for literacy development in a grade one classroom in the Western Cape
(SUN, 2016)This paper reports on a literacy pilot project which investigated the use of multilingual reading books and the pedagogical strategies that were employed by one bilingual teacher and her assistant to teach literacy in a ... -
Mandela in the Arabic media: A transitivity analysis of Aljazeera Arabic website
(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2016)The paper uses an eclectic approach combining systemic functional linguistics (SFL), critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics to reveal how Mandela is presented in the Arab Media. SFL and CDA enable the ... -
Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect: evidence from Afrikaans
(De Gruyter, 2013)Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion event construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more prone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages ... -
Multilingual examinations: towards a schema of politicization of language in end of high school examinations in sub-Saharan Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, ... -
Multilingualism and (bi)literacy development for epistemological access: Exploring students experience in the use of multilingual glossaries at a South African university
(NMMU, 2018)This paper reports on the findings of a research project that investigated first-year students’ experiences in using multilingual glossaries. They were enrolled in an electrical engineering course at a higher education ... -
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 ... -
Multilingualism as racialization
(University of Western Cape, 2021)South African today remains a nation torn by violence and racial inequity. One of major challenges for its people is to create new futures across historically constituted racial divides, by finding ways ... -
Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality
(Springer Verlag, 2013)South Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as ... -
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 ... -
Multimodality, creativity and children's meaning making: drawings, writings, imaginings
(SUN Journals, 2016)This paper uses a case study of two children's drawings, early writings and imaginative role play to illustrate how children use a variety of modes to make meaning in ways which are creative and beyond the design and ...