Hessenauer, Perry Ross(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the requestive behaviour, including perceptions of politeness and directness, of
Omani second language (L2) English students at Nizwa University in Oman as revealed by their
written ...
Du Toit, Tamzin(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates multimodal assessment in the South African higher education
context. The communication landscape of students is becoming increasingly
multimodal, resulting in a shift away from ...
Mensah, Henry Amo(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the language policy and implementation outside and inside the classroom in a multilingual and multicultural international school. Specifically, it aims at giving an insight into how ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the language shift from isiXhosa to Afrikaans in a group of indigenous African language speakers in a rural Northern Cape community. It plots the process that took place over three ...
De Wet, Maryke(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to evaluate the extent to which women in higher education
experience or are aware of possible limitations placed on them as women in work contexts
that historically were the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hydraulic fracturing is a geo-engineering procedure designed to extract shale gas from below the earth’s surface. Shale gas is often considered a natural, alternative source of energy that has the potential ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is more to language than just its formal structural properties and, similarly, more to language function than just its communicative and naming function. Language does not exist independent of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study refers to the use of two languages in education at a satellite campus of the University of Namibia situated in the far north of the country in the town of Ongwediva. The dominant community ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the effect of language typically used on social network sites such as Facebook (referred to here as “Facebook-speak”) on the written academic work of a selected group of high school ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: China‘s rise as an economic superpower has had important consequences for its relations with African countries over the past 10-15 years. Not only were these relations thoroughly reviewed and significantly ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation reports on a study that straddles the applied linguistic fields of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and a sociolinguistic field recently referred to as “queer linguistics”. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on the ways in which rape perpetrated by males on females is constructed in news stories and the advice column, Dear Dolly, published in the South African publication, Drum magazine. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to determine and compare the functions of the pragmatic
markers (PMs) okay, anyway and shame as they occur in two spoken components of
the International Corpus of English ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the grammatical properties and syntactic derivation of KRY (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans. Analyses of the corresponding phenomenon in other West-Germanic languages are examined and ...
Smit, Johan Brand(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study provides a description of Afrikaans adverbs within the framework of proposals set out by Cinque (1999). Previous analyses of adverbs in Afrikaans have generally been done within a non-generative ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As South Africa is a culturally and linguistically diverse country, there is a great need for an accurate evaluation instrument that can identify children with specific language impairment (SLI) early, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study reported on in this thesis focuses on six English-German bilingual preschool children in Cape Town. The thesis is interested in understanding the relation between codeswitching (the frequency, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on a community of multilingual adolescents who are high performers in mathematics and science, and whose primary language of teaching and learning is English. The participants who form ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This PhD study investigated the organisational structure of medical communicative facilities and
the related communicative experiences of health care providers and patients in HIV and AIDS care
centres ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper was to investigate the language used in communicating with South Africans born in Zambia and Tanzania during the years of "the struggle" and now repatriated – the returnees. From ...