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Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children
(Stellenbosch University, 2004)
Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as
part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities?
This paper looks at the ways in which ...
Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa.
(Routledge, 2001)
The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...
Negotiating race and belonging in a post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2014)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity has
continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid
South Africa. This paper explores how race is ...
Transitivity and the narrator's role in selected TRC testimonies
(Stellenbosch University, 2006)
This paper seeks to explore how two different narrators at a hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) represent the same set of events. With the use of analytical concepts and frameworks drawn ...
A cross-linguistic analysis of the writing of prospective first year students in Xhosa and English.
(University of Stellenbosch, 2002)
This article aims to characterize typical linguistic and discourse features of academic writing in Xhosa and English among prospective Xhosa-speaking students at the University of the Western Cape so as to account for ...
Cyber socialising: emerging genres and registers of intimacy
(Taylor & FrancisUNISA Press, 2013)
The popularity of digital media networks for socialising among the youth is well
documented. Much has been written on the emerging norms of textese, the global
shorthand for chatting. However, becoming a proficient user ...
Uncovering and negotiating barriers to intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square, Cape Town's 'world in miniature': an insider's perspective
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)
Intercultural communication (ICC) is one of the most relevant fields for investigation in postcolonial Africa and post-apartheid South Africa, given the freedom of movement between African countries and the wide range of ...
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, ...
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 ...