Browsing Research Articles (Linguistics) by Subject "Remediation"
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Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Using mission statements from the UCT, UWC and Stellenbosch University (South Africa), we explore how the three universities have rematerialised prior discourses to rebrand their identities as dictated by contemporary ... -
'Foreigners are stealing our birth right': Moral panics and the discursive construction of Zimbabwean immigrants in South African media
(SAGE Publications, 2014)We examine 575 randomly selected articles on Zimbabwean immigrants from the South African Media (SAM) database to expose discourses of exclusion and the production of the psycho-social condition - moral panic. We use ... -
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 ...