Doctoral Degrees (General Linguistics)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Mother tongue education and transition to English medium education in Uganda : teachers perspectives and practices versus language policy and curriculum
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I report on an ethnographic survey study undertaken on bi-/multilingual education in ten primary schools in Uganda. The primary aim of this study was to explore how teachers understand ... -
The role of input in the early trilingual acquisition of English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study investigates the acquisition of vocabulary and passive constructions by 11 four-year-old children simultaneously acquiring South African English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa in low socio-economic ... -
Interrogating China’s approach to relations with sub-Saharan Africa in official documents (2000-2010) through critical discourse analysis
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
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