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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 ...
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 ...
The semiotic ecology of linguistic landscapes in rural Zambia
(John Wiley & Sons LTD., 2015)
In addressing the dearth in studies on linguistic/semiotic landscapes in
oral-language dominant rural communities, we use the notion of
repurposing to show how people from rural areas of Livingstone and
Lusaka in Zambia ...
Post-modern ‘languagers’: the effects of texting by university students on three South African languages
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
The present post-modern society has witnessed a growth spurt in technology, and with the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), mobile text messaging (texting) is now seen as the norm among the ...
‘Why can’t race just be a normal thing?’ Entangled discourses in the narratives of young South Africans
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2015)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity hascontinued to permeate many aspects of private and public life post-apartheid. For young people growing up in the ‘new’ South Africa, the ...
‘It’s just taking our souls back’: discourses of apartheid and race
(Routledge, 2015)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the issue of race as a primary identity marker has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand ...
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 ...