• Requests at the University of Nizwa 

  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 ...
• Multisemiotic resources in student assessment : a case study of one module at Stellenbosch University 

  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 ...
• Language policy and practice in a multilingual classroom : managing linguistic diversity in a Namibian high school 

  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 ...
• Language biographies and language repertoires : changes in language identity of indigenous African language speakers in a town in the Northern Cape 

  Daubney, Anna-Marie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  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 ...
• Women in higher education : an analysis of narratives on gender in the workplace 

  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 ...
• The discursive construction of hydraulic fracturing in South Africa : a critical analysis of media texts from 2011 to 2012 

  Smit, Simone Nicole (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  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 ...
• The use of language by the African National Congress in its 1999-2009 national election manifestos 

  Bojabotseha, Teboho Pankratius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  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 ...
• Multilingual communication in a higher education classroom in Namibia where the dominant community language is Oshiwambo 

  Shiweda, Meameno Aileen (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• Investigating the impact of facebook-speak on the written academic work of learners in a Western Cape high school 

  Roelofse, Louis (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• Interrogating China’s approach to relations with sub-Saharan Africa in official documents (2000-2010) through critical discourse analysis 

  Ndenguino-Mpira, Hermanno (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• The discourse of liberation: the portrayal of the gay liberation movement in South African news media from 1982 to 2006 

  Mongie, Lauren Danger (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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”. ...
• Constructing victims and perpetrators of sexual violence in Drum magazine between 1984 and 2004 : a discourse analytical study 

  Krige, Jana (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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. ...
• The pragmatic markers anyway, okay and shame : a comparative study of two African varieties of English 

  Fairhurst, Melanie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• Kry (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans : a minimalist analysis 

  Vos, Maria (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• An investigation into the adequacy of Cinque’s functional theory as a framework for the analysis of adverbs in Afrikaans 

  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 ...
• Die gebruik van onsinwoordherhaling, regtewoordherhaling, sinsherhaling en getalherhaling in die indentifisering van kinders met spesifieke taalgestremdheid 

  Gagiano, Salomé (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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, ...
• Frequency and function of codeswitching among German-English bilingual preschool children in Cape Town 

  Terveen, Insa Christine (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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, ...
• The linguistic identities of multilingual adolescents involved in educational enrichment programmes in Johannesburg 

  Bristowe, Anthea J. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  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 ...
• Language discordant HIV and AIDS interactions in Lesotho health care centres 

  Sobane, Konosoang Mabafokeng (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...
• An investigation of discriminatory language used in communicating with South Africans born in Tanzania and Zambia 

  Mtonjeni, Thembinkosi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

  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 ...

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