Doctoral Degrees (General Linguistics)
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Syntactic processing in English–Afrikaans bilinguals
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A fundamental question in the study of human language is why, compared to the acquisition of a first language (L1), second language (L2) acquisition should have such widely varying outcomes. Relatedly, ... -
The discursive construction of identity in young offenders' narratives in Swaziland
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study of ‘identity’ straddles different fields such as psychology, sociology and linguistics. The particular approach taken to the study of identity is contingent upon the field, with some fields ... -
Nominal classification in Bantu revisited : the perspective from Chichewa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present study focuses on the phenomenon of noun class and agreement systems in Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken in some parts of Eastern and Southern Africa. Noun classification is a strong areal ... -
Multilingualism in the workplace : communicative practices between store owners and assistants in Chinese shops in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the introduction of representative government in 1994, South Africa has seen a significant influx of Asian and African migrant workers, and their presence in South Africa has become part of the ... -
Revisie : een aspek van kwaliteitbestuur in ’n akademiese vertaalkantoor
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study takes a closer look at and discusses revision as one of the aspects of quality management in the context of academic translation offices at higher education institutions. Key quality management ... -
An investigation into the effect of mobile-assisted language learning on Rwandan university students' proficiency in English as a foreign language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is almost common knowledge that English is the most spoken language in the world, which is considered a global lingua franca, and which often offers a means of socio-economic mobility for its speakers ... -
The development of cognitive processes and English language abilities : the case of early English language learners in a multilingual South African setting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the development of English language skills and the processes which underlie these skills in English Language Learners (ELLs) who are in their first year of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Spelling out P: a unified syntax of Afrikaans adpositions and V-particles
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Elements of language that are typically considered to have P (i.e. adpositional) category status frequently exhibit divergent morphosyntactic properties, and it is often the case that one and the same ... -
A relevance-theoretic analysis of selected South African English pragmatic markers and their cultural significance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the development and contemporary functions of three pragmatic markers (PMs), shame, hey and is it, common in South African English (SAfE). The analyses of these PMs were undertaken ... -
Construction of linguistic identities among cross-border communities: The case of Samia of Uganda and Samia of Kenya
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigated the discursive identity construction of a community who is separated by a national border. The town of Busia cuts across the Ugandan/Kenyan border and the community language ... -
Listening in HIV counselling and testing: hearer signals in rural patient-counsellor HIV consultation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: MIV en VIGS is sedert die 1980s ’n kommerwekkende nasionale gesondheidskwessie in Suid-Afrika. Na beraming het daar teen 2014 ʼn getal van 6,8 miljoen mense tussen die ouderdomme van 15 en 49 met MIV ... -
The acquisition of (in)definiteness in English as a foreign language by Tanzanian L1 Swahili secondary school learners
(2016-12)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die studie waaroor in hierdie proefskrif gerapporteer word, het ondersoek ingestel na die verwerwing van (on)bepaaldheid in Engels as Vreemde Taal (EVT) deur hoërskoolleerders met Swahili as eerstetaal ... -
The use of multilingual glossaries in enhancing the academic achievement of Extended Degree Programme students in a mainstream subject
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the explanations for South African students’ poor performance at university, is the apparent mismatch or discontinuity between the exit level of secondary education and the entry level of higher ... -
Scaffolding academic literacy using the reading to learn methodology: an evaluative study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary aim of this study was to test and assess the efficacy of an innovative literacy development intervention, Reading to Learn (RtL), with Grade 11 students at two schools within the Winelands ... -
Profiles of multilingualism in Kampala: An analysis of language biographies and language repertoires of University students
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a sociolinguistic study that investigates the language biographies and repertoires that underpin the kinds of linguistic knowledge students in Kampala, Uganda have acquired by the time they enter ... -
A Narrative Enrichment Programme in literacy development of Afrikaans speaking Grade 3 learners in monolingual rural schools
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is motivated by existing information on the discontinuity between home literacy practices and school literacy expectations of learners who typically speak a local variety of their mothertongue which ... -
The comprehension and production of later developing language constructions by Afrikaans-, English- and isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigated the comprehension and production of articles, quantifiers, binding relations and passive constructions as later developing constructions (LDCs) by 27 Grade (Gr) 1 monolingual ... -
A critical analysis of corporate reports that articulate corporate social responsibility
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the last 15 years, growing public awareness of the negative impact of corporate activities has prompted big corporations in the mining, manufacturing and retail sectors to publish reports that communicate ...
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