Browsing Masters Degrees (General Linguistics) by Title
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Kry (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans : a minimalist analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the grammatical properties and syntactic derivation of KRY (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans. Analyses of the corresponding phenomenon in other West-Germanic languages are examined and ... -
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 ... -
Language attitudes in pre-adolescent multilinguals : a comparison of five data elicitation techniques
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study had two aims. The first was to identify the most useful data elicitation technique/s to use when eliciting data from multilingual South African pre-adolescents who have an African language as ... -
Language biographies and language repertoires : changes in language identity of indigenous African language speakers in a town in the Northern Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the language shift from isiXhosa to Afrikaans in a group of indigenous African language speakers in a rural Northern Cape community. It plots the process that took place over three ... -
Language choices of English L1 learners in a Western Cape high school
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)This research focuses on the language repertoire, patterns of language use and language preferences of learners from Afrikaans homes, who are registered in the English first language classes in a particular Western Cape ... -
Language errors in the use of English by two different dialect groups of Afrikaans first language-speakers employed by Nedbank : an analysis and possible remedy
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The financial sector of South Africa is increasingly under pressure to ensure that the language used in all communication is aligned with international best practice and, furthermore, that the correct ... -
Language in public spaces : language choice in two IsiXhosa speaking communities (Langa and Khayelitsha)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this thesis was to investigate language in public spaces, specifically looking at language choices in two IsiXhosa speaking communities, namely Langa and Khayelitsha. The thesis, therefore, ... -
The language learning strategy use of isiXhosa-speaking adolescents in the second language acquisition of English
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research to date on language learning strategy (LLS) use and its influence on second language (L2) acquisition and proficiency has produced variable results. While many researchers feel that LLSs have ... -
Language policy and practice in a multilingual classroom : managing linguistic diversity in a Namibian high school
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the language policy and implementation outside and inside the classroom in a multilingual and multicultural international school. Specifically, it aims at giving an insight into how ... -
Language shift from Afrikaans to English in "Coloured" families in Port Elizabeth three case studies
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates whether language shift is occurring within the community of the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. These areas are historically predominantly “coloured” and Afrikaans-speaking, ... -
Language shift within two generations : Afrikaans mother tongue parents raising English mother tongue children
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The community of Paarl, in the Western Cape, is traditionally Afrikaans-speaking. This research investigated whether a language shift has occurred in some middle-class communities in Paarl. Certain Coloured ... -
Learners' attitudes to standard vs non-standard South African English accents of their teachers
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interested in the relationship between accent and hearers’ perception of the speaker. It investigates the kinds of stereotypes related to phonological features of the speaker’s 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 ... -
Linguistic constructions of identity in the discourse of American international students studying at Stellenbosch University : a positioning theory account
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The number of students studying outside of their country of birth is growing rapidly. While the United States of America only sends a small number of students abroad every year, high profile institutions ... -
Linguistic diversity in a rural Northern Cape municipality : a sociolinguistic investigation of Gamagara local municipality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Linguistic landscapes (LLs) have primarily been investigated within urban areas. This thesis focuses on the diverse rural communities of the Gamagara Municipal area, located within the Northern Cape where ... -
The linguistic identities of multilingual adolescents involved in educational enrichment programmes in Johannesburg
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on a community of multilingual adolescents who are high performers in mathematics and science, and whose primary language of teaching and learning is English. The participants who form ... -
Linguistic markers as evidence for cultural awareness : a critical examination of international critiques of a South African dance company
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Viewing cross-cultural dance performances on international tours or as part of international dance festivals has become common practice all over the world. For critique writers, choreographers/ dancers ... -
The linguistic markers of the language variety spoken by gang members on the Cape Flats, according to the film Dollars and White Pipes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The non-standard “way of speaking” associated with gang members on the Cape Flats is the focus of the present study. This thesis is not about gangsters and gang culture, neither is it an attempt to analyze ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
