Meet our current postgrads
Doctoral students
Michellene Williams |
Connie Tukwasibwe |
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| Thesis topic: Language policy and practice in South Africa's state services: an in-depth (descriptive) investigation of the health and policing sectors in Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay | Thesis topic: An investigation of Ugandan English with the use of a written learner corpus |
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| Supervisor: Ron Simango | Supervisor: Mark de Vos |
Caroline van der Mescht
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Umar Bello |
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| Thesis topic: Positions on the mat: a micro-ethnographic study of teachers' and learners' co-construction of identity in early literacy practice |
Thesis topic: To be announced | |
| Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff (co-supervised) |
Supervisor: Sally Hunt |
Master's students
Ian Siebörger |
Xiujie Ma |
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| Thesis topic: Literacy, orality and recontextualization in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa: an ethnographic study |
Thesis topic: An analysis of temporal references in language: A comparative study of Mandarin and isiXhosa |
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| Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff |
Supervisor: Ron Simango |
Jacqui Carlyle |
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| Thesis topic: The social meaning of monolingualism in two KwaZulu-Natal high schools |
| Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff |
Honours students
Babongile Zulu |
Tracy Beangstrom |
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| Research topic: Asking for and giving advice: an APPRAISAL analysis of agony aunt and uncle columns |
Research topic: The interpersonal choices in the language of real estate agency advertisements: an APPRAISAL analysis |
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| Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff |
Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff |
Hazel Mitchley |
Lynn Nowers |
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| Research topic: Co-ordination in IsiXhosa and Sesotho: resolving the clash between semantics and syntax |
Research topic: Gender representation in popular music lyrics: a comparison between 1960 and 2010 |
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| Supervisor: Mark de Vos | Supervisor: Sally Hunt |
Tracy Royal |
Amy Richardson |
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| Research topic: The plural of 'fish' is... er... 'fishes': agreement patterning exhibited by invariable plural nouns |
Research topic: Breaking the Silence: the transformational discourse of a feminist anti-rape protest: an APPRAISAL analysis |
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| Supervisor: Mark de Vos | Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff |
Jade Smith |
Sanne Lauriks |
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| Research topic: The creation of an 'imagined community' in readers' letters to the Daily Sun: an APPRAISAL investigation |
Research topic: The occurrence of euphemism in South African parliamentary discourse |
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| Supervisor: Ralph Adendorff | Supervisor: Ron Simango |
