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Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)
As part of a broader student campaign for ‘free decolonized education’, protests
over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016
belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, ...
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 ...
The interaction of text and visual in specialized dictionary definitions
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2013)
Although visuals have been co-deployed with text in specialized dictionaries as far back as the European Renaissance, the interaction of both representational modalities is relatively under-researched. As a consequence, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Abstraction as a limit to semiosis
(De Gruyter, 2013)
In highly evolved culture, discourse is made up of complexes of implicit
and explicit inter-textual relations, which form the meanings for new signifiers.
Meanings for common abstract nouns are derived from the modeling ...
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 ...
Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily
journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers
in South Africa. The principal ...
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 ...