Masters Degrees (General Linguistics)
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Lexical variation and change in SASL : a case study of a Western Cape school-lect
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Lexical variation is common in most sign languages and is often related to regional identity specifically connected to a specific school for the Deaf. This study examined lexical variation and change ... -
"Findings worth sharing": a move-step analysis of how linguistic findings are popularised on the TED stage
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Genre analysis, within the discipline of linguistics, entails the detailed study of what typifies and categorises a textual or spoken discourse act. Understanding the structural and linguistic characteristics ... -
A critical analysis of the discursive representation of homelessness in News24, District Mail and Ground Up from 2018 - 2020
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on a qualitative and quantitative study of the discursive representation of homelessness in three South African news media publications, District Mail, News24, and Ground Up between ... -
To buy or not to buy?: a psycholinguistic perspective on code switching in advertisements
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effects of language on consumer’s product evaluation and decision making. The main research questions of this study are “How does the presence of code-switching in advertisements ... -
Scents and sensitivity : the emotional valence and flexibility of Afrikaans taste and smell adjectives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present study investigated the influence of perceptual experience on the emotional valence of Afrikaans adjectives associated with smell and taste, as well as the emotional valence of the contexts ... -
"What's in a name?": political correctness, euphemism, and the impact of name-words on thought
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study assessed the impact that euphemistic language may have on one’s reasoning about phenomena, with specific regard to how nominal politically correct labels affect perceptions about groups of ... -
A sociolinguistic analysis of Coloured gay men's linguistic repertoires and the intersections of Kaaps and Gayle as performative linguistic varieties
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the lived language experiences of nine self-identified coloured gay men in South Africa, with the aim of understanding their linguistic repertoires, the use and functions thereof, ... -
Tertiary education in a second language : a case study of the linguistic repertoires and experiences of multilingual students at a South African tertiary institution who previously had French as medium of instruction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the language repertoires of a sample of African Francophone students, studying towards various degrees and diplomas at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) in South Africa. The study ... -
The effect of an e-delivered dialogic reading programme, for middleclass caregiver-preschooler dyads, on the vocabulary and narrative skills of the pre-schoolers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Literacy rates in South Africa (SA) are low, with the cycle of poverty being continued by these rates (Spaull, 2015). Language abilities during the preschool years have been shown to correlate ... -
’n Sosiolinguistiese analise van koffiewinkels as virtuele voedsellandskappe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Michael Goodman (2016:257) suggests that food is more than food, because many aspects surrounding the creation, intake and environment around food, is being studied these days. Food is more than ... -
Identities, ideologies and practices of English language teachers in one school in the United Arab Emirates
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: iiABSTRACTAccording to Siemund, Al-Issa and Leimgruber (2020:1), English “occupies a special role”in the “multilingual texture”of the United Arab Emirates(UAE). The fact that it is the medium of instruction ... -
The discursive construction of authorial voice and disciplinarity through citation: when educational research and applied language research articles intersect with decoloniality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to investigate the ways in which disciplinary knowledge, convention, canonisation, and authorial voice are constructed in Educational Research (ER) and Applied Linguistics and Language ... -
A lexical comparison of South African sign language and potential lexifier languages
(2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa’s history of segregation was a large contributing factor for lexical variation in South African Sign Language (SASL) to come about. Foreign sign languages certainly had a presence in the ... -
Developing a sentence repetition test for the evaluation of deaf children’s use of South African sign language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study creates the first sentence repetition test (SRT) for South African Sign Language (SASL). The test can be used to measure the proficiency of a participant and track their progress over time. The ... -
Colour memory and similarity judgement in isiXhosa-English bilinguals : the case of luhlaza
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Colour categorisation has been a well-known topic of enquiry in the cognitive sciences. There is an abundance of literature examining colour categorisation in speakers of different languages. The findings ... -
Parallel vs sequential activation during spoken-word recognition tasks : an eye-tracking study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through previous spoken word-recognition tasks, bilinguals have demonstrated an ability to access both languages in a simultaneous/parallel manner. Parallel activation contrasts with sequential activation ... -
Entanglements of semiotic resources and space in the language portraits of Stellenbosch University staff and students
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the lived experiences of minority language speakers at Stellenbosch University. The concept of linguistic repertoires is a central part of this study as it investigates the diverse ... -
Thinking in two minds : the role of second language in risk-taking
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study assessed the effects that language may have on an individual’s decision making in scenarios that involve some type of risk. The main research questions of the study are “Do individuals with ... -
Must they sing Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika or must they return fire : a critical analysis of discourses surrounding African migrants on South African online news and Facebook
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, xenophobic violence has become a regular occurrence in South Africa. (Matsinhe 2011:295) and xenophobic attitudes and discourse have been taken up and practiced by ordinary South Africans as ... -
The discursive construction of Goldfields residence : an assemblage of change agents, an apartheid chronotope and a convivial multiculture
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Documenting readers’ responses to linguistic landscapes (LLs) is a common field of enquiry in linguistic landscape studies (LLS) (cf. Garvin, 2010; Lou, 2009; Malinowski, 2009). However, these studies ...
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