Masters Degrees (General Linguistics)
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Institutional culture in a multicultural community of practice: A case study of a Kenyan University College.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to explore institutional culture in a multicultural and linguistically diverse university college in Nairobi County, Kenya. It examined intercultural communication and the ... -
Investment in learning Japanese as a foreign language: A case study of multilingual adults in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last three decades, the number of Japanese language learners in the world have increased, while the number of learners in the three countries with the greatest Japanese learner populations, China, ... -
Young South African adults’ attitudes towards the use of obscene language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is concerned primarily with the examination of obscene language as it functions in South African society. Specifically, this study aims to discern how young adults perceive obscene language and ... -
Reversing time: The effects of mirror reading and writing exercises on the mental timeline
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study assessed the influence of experience and embodied cognition on the mental timeline through investigating the effect of exposure to reversed orthography reading and writing exercises. The main ... -
Linguistic variation in Afrikaans in the Southern Cape: grammatical form and function in the spoken language of young adults
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study involves an examination of possibly distinctive features of different variants of Afrikaans. This was done in a town in the southern Cape, in which Afrikaans is the predominant home language ... -
A cross-cultural analysis of corporate press statements: A case study of Monsanto
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Monsanto direct a significant amount of attention to strategic marketing efforts in order to achieve a number of goals. These goals include brand awareness, ... -
.Perceived object similarity in isiXhosa: assessing the role of noun classes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Categorizing objects is central to the way we as humans interact with the world. Without the capacity to form categories, we might not have been able to function efficiently. It is generally assumed that ... -
Speech act realisation strategies and possible effects of transference by speakers of Khoekhoegowab into English when acquired as a second language.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch Univesity, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focused on requestive behaviour of speakers of Khoekhoegowab (KKG) in their mother tongue and in English as a second language (ESL), to uncover strategies mother tongue speakers of KKG employ ... -
A study of multilingual Extended Degree Programme (EDP) students: The construction of voice through metadiscourse markers in written texts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Higher Education has become increasingly diverse, and this is especially true in South Africa where universities have adapted to allow for more equitable access. To facilitate student success in this ... -
Civil unrest in South Africa: Insights from cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The critical investigation of political discourse has been of interest to philosophers, rhetoricians, political scientists, and linguists for centuries. Dating back to Aristotle, thinkers have been ... -
Student voice and agency in master's thesis writing in a second language context: Beyond the use of pronouns
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the multimodal construction of voice and agency in master's theses within the South African context. I argue that voice is not only realized through linguistic features but also ... -
Multilingualism in Health Care: Communicative experiences of expatriate healthcare providers with varying linguistic repertoires in Windhoek, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study reports on the investigation of communicative practices among multilingual participants in healthcare in Windhoek, Namibia, from the perspective of expatriate healthcare practitioners ... -
Language and place-making: public signage in the Linguistic Landscape of Windhoek's Central Business District
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Investigating linguistic landscapes (LLs) has primarily been a matter of assessing language use in public signage. In its early days research in the field focused largely on quantitative analysis and ... -
‘#Strenght’: A critical investigation of the contemporary representations of men and women in fitness communities on Instagram
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary linguists seek to describe and analyse all manifestations of language, including those occurring on the Internet (see Crystal 2011:1). Investigating visual and linguistic representations ... -
Mandarin native speakers' perceptions and attitudes towards learning English as a foreign language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the spread of the English language advances exponentially, the need for improving English language teaching for second language (L2) learners becomes more prominent along with subsequent research into ... -
Student expectations and perceptions of the usefulness of their linguistic repertoires for achieving social integration and academic success at an international university in Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study examined the perceptions and expectations held by students towards the usefulness of their linguistic repertoires in helping them achieve social integration and academic success at the International ... -
The position of English in the language repertoires of multilingual students at a tertiary institution: A case study at the Vaal University of Technology
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis describes a case study on the position of English in the language repertoires of students at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT). Despite its multilingual student body, English is ... -
Racialised discourse in the former Model C School: Discourse of exclusion and inclusion
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on racialised discourse in a former Model C school in the Northern Suburbs of the Western Cape. The primary areas of investigation were surrounding the discourses of inclusion and ... -
The acquisition of wh-question constructions in Mandarin Chinese by L1 isiXhosa-speaking and L1 English-speaking high school learners
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the acquisition of main clause wh-questions in Mandarin Chinese, at an elementary stage of language learning, by first language (L1) Englishand L1 isiXhosa-speaking high school ... -
Code-switching and translanguaging inside and outside the classroom: bi-/multilingual practices of high school learners in a rural Afrikaans-setting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dominance of Afrikaans as medium of communication in the rural town of Upington in the Northern Cape, South Africa, is reflected in the day-to-day communication practices by the vast majority of its ...
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