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Doctoral Degrees (General Linguistics)

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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”. ...
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 ...
Discourse strategies of lecturers in higher education classroom interaction : a case at the University Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Shartiely, Nikuigize Erick (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates how linguistic super diversity is managed in a higher education context in Tanzania. Specifically, the use of language in lectures to large classes made up of students with ...
Linguistic strategies used in the construction of performance assessment discourse in the South African workplace

Jones, Tamiryn (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the construction of Performance Assessment Discourses in three companies in the Western Cape, South Africa. The specific interest of is in how Performance Assessment Interviews ...
Obligatory reflexivity in Afrikaans : a minimalist approach

Oosthuizen, Johan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the phenomenon of obligatory reflexivity in Afrikaans. Despite a considerable literature on this phenomenon as it is reflected in other languages, the Afrikaans data have not received ...
Managing linguistic diversity in literacy and language development : an analysis of teachers' attitudes, skills and strategies in multilingual Kenyan primary school classrooms

Nyaga, Susan Karigu (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates teachers' language practices in multilingual classrooms with regard to their attitudes, skills and strategies in their management of linguistic diversity among learners in their ...
Effects of the second language on the first : investigating the development of 'conceptual fluency' of bilinguals in a tertiary education context

Oostendorp, Marcelyn Camereldia Antonette (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of the increased use of a second language (L2) (English) as language of teaching and learning on the bilingual individual in a specific bilingual higher education ...
A theoretical model for a Yipunu-English-French explanatory dictionary of medical terms

Mihindou, Guy-Roger (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation proposes a theoretical model of a dictionary which will include three languages, namely French, Yipunu and English in a specific field of medicine. The decision to compile such a dictionary ...
The relationship between narrative skills and reading comprehension : when mainstream learners show signs of specific language impairment

Klop, Daleen (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The attainment of literacy is crucial for survival in a modern industrialised, knowledge-driven society. Children with poor language skills are at risk for academic failure because of the differences ...
Investigating literacy development among learners with a second language as medium of education : the effects of an emergent literacy stimulation program in Grade R

Olivier, Johanna M. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Addressing the low literacy rates in South Africa poses a mountainous challenge. However, identifying children at risk for reading difficulties and providing timely and preventative intervention might ...

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