Browsing Masters Degrees (General Linguistics) by Title
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Oordrag van sintaktiese aspekte van die eerstetaal in die tweedetaalverwerwing van Xhosa
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)This thesis reports on an investigation into the possibility of first language (L1) transfer in the initial stages of the second language (L2) acquisition of Xhosa by adolescent beginner learners with, respectively, ... -
Organisational discourses : electronic windows on the work of HIV/AIDS-care organisations
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is interested in textual features of websites which cover the same kind of content, but represent different organisations and address different kinds of audiences. Specifically, it investigates ... -
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 ... -
Patterns of use of and attitudes towards the Afrikaans language by South African expatriates : a sociolinguistic perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the attitudes of South African expatriates in the Middle East towards the Afrikaans language. It also examines the reported language behaviour of South Africans when meeting and ... -
.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 ... -
Perceptions of “new Englishes”: responses to the use of Swazi English in newspapers in Swaziland
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)The concept of ‘new Englishes’ developed as a result of the relatively new perception of English as an adapting and evolving language within increasingly wider global contexts. According to McArthur (1992:688) the term ... -
The performance of rural speakers of non-standard Afrikaans on the diagnostic evaluation of language variation
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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 ... -
Positioning in Somali narratives in the Saldanha bay municipality area on the west coast of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is interested in discourses of displacement in which migrants articulate the experience of seeking improved life chances in a community considerably removed from their place of origin. Not only ... -
Pragmatic aspects of making and responding to complaints in an intercultural university context
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The broad topic of this study is the nature and the effects of making and interpreting complaints in intercultural interactions involving international students and South African administrative staff ... -
Pragmatic assessment of schizophrenic bilinguals' L1 and L2 use : a comparison of three assessment tools
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The term "schizophrenia" refers to a psychiatric condition which affects an individual's thought and speech (Eaton and Chen 2006). The verbal expression of schizophrenics can therefore be used as a tool ... -
The pragmatic markers anyway, okay and shame : a comparative study of two African varieties of English
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to determine and compare the functions of the pragmatic markers (PMs) okay, anyway and shame as they occur in two spoken components of the International Corpus of English ... -
Profiling bilingualism in an historically Afrikaans community on the Beaufort West Hooyvlakte
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This sociolinguistic study examines selected aspects of the linguistic behavior of a rural language community in South Africa. The general aims are to establish first, whether this "coloured" community ... -
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 ... -
(Re)constructing body shaming: Popular media representations of female identities as discursive identity construction
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study takes an analytical approach to discourse in its focus on the discursive realisation and (re)production of ideology in terms of the (re)construction of a singular female identity as portrayed ... -
Reconstructing the crime : the use of past tenses in The monogram murders and Meurtres en majuscules
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents a literary-linguistic study which focuses on detective fiction and its use of past tenses in both English and French. Two novels are analysed, Sophie Hannah’s The Monogram Murders and ... -
The relationship between the language learning strategy use and language proficiency of Vietnamese-speaking learners of English as a foreign language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research into the variables which affect second language (L2) learning has shown varying results. The relationship between one of these factors, language learning strategies (LLSs), and language proficiency ... -
Requests at the University of Nizwa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the requestive behaviour, including perceptions of politeness and directness, of Omani second language (L2) English students at Nizwa University in Oman as revealed by their written ... -
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 ... -
The role of (de)motivational factors in the context of learning English in South Korea
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-11)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In November 2013, the Switzerland-based global English education company, EF Education First, reported that, in terms of English ability in non-native countries, South Korea was ranked moderately ...
