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The nature and context of Kaaps: a contemporary, past and future perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
In this contribution, which serves as orientation for this special edition, the accent falls
chiefly on the contemporary manifestation of Kaaps as colloquial variety of Afrikaans,
but also on its historic roots and the ...
Writing biology, assessing biology: The nature and effects of variation in terminology
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)
There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high ...
Rastafarian-herbalists' enregisterment of multilingual voices in an informal marketplace
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2016)
What do we mean when we talk about "multilingual voice" in the post-apartheid sociolinguistic context of South Africa? In this paper, I explore this question by reporting on an ethnographic fieldwork project that involved ...
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 ...
Towards a democratisation of new media spaces in multilingual/multicultural Africa: A heteroglossic account of multilocal and multivoiced counter-hegemonic discourses in Zambian online news media
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
This paper explores the production of hybrid cultural identities in Zambian online news websites. Using extracts from five popular online newspapers, namely Lusaka Times, The Post, Kachepa360, Zambia Reports and Zambian ...
'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 ...
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 ...
Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis
(Equinox publishing, 2016)
This paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop
culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited
ethnographic fieldwork study of youth ...
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 ...
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Springer, 2016)
This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...