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A critical analysis of media discourse after a natural flooding disaster in Malawi, in 2015
(2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a multimodal critical discourse analysis study that investigates the media discursive strategies in the representation of the catastrophic flooding disaster of January 2015 in Malawi. It analyses ...
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Pragmatic markers in L1 Luganda-L2 English bilingual spoken discourse: A relevance-theoretic approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, I examine the manifestation of Luganda and English pragmatic markers as embedded elements, and analyse the procedural roles they play in facilitating interaction in bilingual spoken ...
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Institutional culture in a multicultural community of practice: A case study of a Kenyan University College.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to explore institutional culture in a multicultural and linguistically diverse university college in Nairobi County, Kenya. It examined intercultural communication and the ...
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Investment in learning Japanese as a foreign language: A case study of multilingual adults in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last three decades, the number of Japanese language learners in the world have increased, while the number of learners in the three countries with the greatest Japanese learner populations, China, ...
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Young South African adults’ attitudes towards the use of obscene language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is concerned primarily with the examination of obscene language as it functions in South African society. Specifically, this study aims to discern how young adults perceive obscene language and ...
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Reversing time: The effects of mirror reading and writing exercises on the mental timeline
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study assessed the influence of experience and embodied cognition on the mental timeline through investigating the effect of exposure to reversed orthography reading and writing exercises. The main ...
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Linguistic variation in Afrikaans in the Southern Cape: grammatical form and function in the spoken language of young adults
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study involves an examination of possibly distinctive features of different variants of Afrikaans. This was done in a town in the southern Cape, in which Afrikaans is the predominant home language ...
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A cross-cultural analysis of corporate press statements: A case study of Monsanto
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Monsanto direct a significant amount of attention to strategic marketing efforts in order to achieve a number of goals. These goals include brand awareness, ...
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.Perceived object similarity in isiXhosa: assessing the role of noun classes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Categorizing objects is central to the way we as humans interact with the world. Without the capacity to form categories, we might not have been able to function efficiently. It is generally assumed that ...
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Speech act realisation strategies and possible effects of transference by speakers of Khoekhoegowab into English when acquired as a second language.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch Univesity, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focused on requestive behaviour of speakers of Khoekhoegowab (KKG) in their mother tongue and in English as a second language (ESL), to uncover strategies mother tongue speakers of KKG employ ...
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A study of multilingual Extended Degree Programme (EDP) students: The construction of voice through metadiscourse markers in written texts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Higher Education has become increasingly diverse, and this is especially true in South Africa where universities have adapted to allow for more equitable access. To facilitate student success in this ...
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Speaker meaning attributed to the terms salvation and insindiso in selected mainline and independent church contexts
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2009-12)This study was conducted to ascertain what meanings the terms salvation, saved, and their isiZulu equivalents have for some Zulu Christians. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine mother-tongue speakers of ...
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Civil unrest in South Africa: Insights from cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The critical investigation of political discourse has been of interest to philosophers, rhetoricians, political scientists, and linguists for centuries. Dating back to Aristotle, thinkers have been ...
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Collapse of genitive and benefactive case in Ecuadorian Quechua?
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)In Ecuadorian Quechua the markers for genitive and benefactive case have become indistinguishable in form: both are basically -pak. This squib discusses the issue whether there has also been a merger in the underlying ...
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The name of the fourth river : a small puzzle presented by a fragment of Kora, for Johan Oosthuizen
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)This squib is a brief venture into the minor sub-branch of Linguistics known as Toponomastics, or the study of the meanings and sources of place names. The topic is suggested by a previously unpublished fragment in the ...
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Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe)
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)Languages of the Khoe family have a complex pronominal system that distinguishes three categories each for person, gender, and number. However, while languages of the Khoekhoe branch and the western subgroup of Kalahari ...
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A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language : question-answer clauses
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)How negation is expressed by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has been described in a wide range of sign languages. This work has suggested a split between sign languages requiring a manual negative element in ...
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Poetry in South African Sign Language : what is different?
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)Poetry in a sign language can make use of literary devices just as poetry in a spoken language can. The study of literary expression in sign languages has increased over the last twenty years and for South African Sign ...
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‘Ja-nee. No, I'm fine’ : a note on YES and NO in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)This paper considers some unusual uses of NO and YES observed in South African English (SAE) and other languages spoken in South Africa. Our objective is to highlight the fundamentally speaker-hearer-oriented nature of ...
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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery : a view from anti-locality
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)It has been convincingly argued that the so-called “left periphery” of the sentence makes available multiple positions which host topicalised and focalised phrases, among other elements. Projections in the C-domain have ...
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Negative exclamatives in Afrikaans : some initial thoughts
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)We consider the to date minimally discussed phenomenon of negative exclamatives in Afrikaans. Negative exclamatives superficially seem to be negative, when they are in fact positive exclamations. These structures therefore ...
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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in ...
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The damaging effects of romantic mythopoeia on Khoesan linguistics
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06)The article outlines some basic guidelines that should inform studies in comparative linguistics, and notes a tendency in contemporary Khoesan linguistics for these to be neglected, while pre-theoretical assumptions of ...
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It may be copyrighted, but it still needs help : improving research questionnaires by means of intralingual translation
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)Clear research questionnaires ultimately help to ensure the reliability and comparability of the data that they gather (Fowler 1992; Lenzner 2012; Moroney and Cameron 2016). This paper explores the intersection of best ...
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Evaluating four readability formulas for Afrikaans
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)For almost a hundred years now, readability formulas have been used to measure how difficult it is to comprehend a given text. To date, four readability formulas have been developed for Afrikaans. Two such formulas were ...
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Assessing spoken-language educational interpreting : measuring up and measuring right
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)This article, primarily, presents a critical evaluation of the development and refinement of the assessment instrument used to assess formally the spoken-language educational interpreters at Stellenbosch University (SU). ...
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Equitable multilingualism? The case of Stellenbosch University Writing Laboratory
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)This article reflects on Stellenbosch University Writing Lab’s pedagogical approach to multilingualism and inclusivity within the complex and political nature of multilingual language policies at a South African university. ...
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Op pad na optimale ondersteuning vir akademiese geletterdhede : die strewe na beter belyning tussen teorie en praktyk
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)Een van die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) Taalsentrum se waardevolste bydraes sedert die ontstaan daarvan is ’n verbeterde belyning tussen teorie en praktyk vir die fasilitering van akademiese geletterdhede (AG). ’n Dekade ...
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Student voice and agency in master's thesis writing in a second language context: Beyond the use of pronouns
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the multimodal construction of voice and agency in master's theses within the South African context. I argue that voice is not only realized through linguistic features but also ...
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Multilingualism in Health Care: Communicative experiences of expatriate healthcare providers with varying linguistic repertoires in Windhoek, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study reports on the investigation of communicative practices among multilingual participants in healthcare in Windhoek, Namibia, from the perspective of expatriate healthcare practitioners ...
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