• The hermeneutics of suspicion and human empowerment: a textual and practical evaluation 

  Senekal-Van der Berg, Elrika (University of the Free State, 2008-11)

  English: Elizabeth SchUssler Fiorenza is the main and most prominent proponent of the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. This hermeneutics has as aim the liberation and empowerment of women and other subjugated groups, and starts ...

• Language and tourism in South Africa: Insights from the Xhariep 

  Hass, Atrimecia Bernadate (University of the Free State, 2016-12)

  The success of any tourism business depends on the ability to communicate effectively with customers. Competence in English is no longer adequate to find a job in the tourism industry. The aim of the study is to address ...

• Developing a theoretical rationale for the attainment of greater equivalence of standard in the Grade 12 Home Language exit-level examinations 

  Du Plessis, Colleen Lynne (University of the Free State, 2017-02)

  English: Disproportionately high pass rates and alarming discrepancies in the results of the South African National Senior Certificate (NSC) external examination for Home Language (HL) subjects have undermined the credibility ...

• Gebaretaaltolkopleiding in Suid-Afrika - 'n inleidende studie 

  Ceronio, Ronelle (University of the Free State, 1997-12)

  Afrikaans: As gevolg van verskeie faktore, bestaan daar tans 'n dringende behoefte aan Gebaretaaltolke in Suid-Afrika. Indien sodanige tolkdienste wel bestaan, is die tolke grootliks onopgelei en word kwaliteittolkwerk ...

• The accessibility of a written Bible versus a signed Bible for the deaf born person with sign language as first language 

  Lombaard, Susanna Catherina (University of the Free State, 2005-11)

  English: This research aimed to prove that Biblical texts in South African Sign Language are more accessible than written or printed Biblical texts for deaf born people in South Africa who use Sign Language as their first ...

• The incremental validity of three tests of academic literacy in the context of a South African university of technology 

  Sebolai, Kabelo Wilson (University of the Free State, 2016-07)

  English: This study focuses on the incremental validity of three assessments of academic language readiness, compared to Grade 12 English results: the National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy (NBT AL), the Proficiency ...

• The influence of the translator’s culture on the translation of selected rhetorical devices in Confucius’ Analects 

  Fang, Chen-Shu (University of the Free State, 2016-01)

  English: Aristotle and Confucius were influential philosophers in the Western and Eastern world respectively. Both of their rhetoric also made the literature of their cultures flourish. One of Confucius’ famous works, ...

• The socio-onomastic significance of American cattle brands: a Montana case study 

  Lombard, Carol Gaye (University of the Free State, 2015-11)

  English: For more than two centuries, cattle ranchers in Montana and other American states such as Texas and Wyoming have used hot iron brands as the primary means of identifying, tracking and proving ownership of their ...

• The linguistic landscape as construct of the public space: a case study of post-apartheid rural South Africa 

  Loth, Chrismi-Rinda (University of the Free State, 2016-02)

  English: The linguistic landscape (LL), comprised of items displaying written language in the public space, is the product of linguistic choices that are executed by a myriad of actors who are guided by numerous pragmatic ...

• Applied linguistics beyond postmodernism 

  Weideman, Albert (University of the Free State, 2013)

  Applied linguistics clearly has modernist roots, which have steadily been eroded by postmodernist views. Opposites, such as quantitative and qualitative, or positivist and postpositivist, are often used to characterise ...

• Contextualising ethics in the practice of translator education: the case of the indigenous value system of the Basotho 

  Marais, Kobus (University of the Free State, 2012)

  English: This article develops the suggestions made in recent publications on translation studies concerning the role of the translator as an agent. The article discusses agency as a central theme in translation, and points ...

• A toponymical study of place name heritage in Mossel Bay (Western Cape) 

  Steenkamp, Joan-Marié (University of the Free State, 2015-07)

  English: After 1994, name changes in South Africa have formed an important part in the reflection of the new democracy. The semiotic landscape needs to be representative of South Africa’s diverse inhabitants. The importance ...

• Implications and explications of police translation of complainants’ sworn statements: evidence lost in translation? 

  Ralarala, Monwabisi Knowledge (University of the Free State, 2015-07)

  This interdisciplinary case study demonstrates that ‘retelling and rewriting’ of complainants’ legal narratives constitutes translation. The police officers’ (hereafter referred to as transpreters) exercise of translating ...

• Twis om woorde: ʼn forensiese ondersoek na semantiese kwessies in hofsake 

  Carney, Terrence Robert (University of the Free State, 2015-06)

  English: Law is dependent on language. This is seen, amongst others, in a court of law’s responsibility to interpret the meaning of words. Cases regularly revolve around words; as a result courts have to deal with lexical ...

• Postcolonialism and hybridity: the translation of Pastoral Liturgy by G.C. Horak into Setswana 

  Ngxangane, Phumelelo Ernest (University of the Free State, 2015-07)

  Abstract not available

• Interpreting and translation for service delivery in local public service contexts 

  Molefe, Monnapula Abel (University of the Free State, 2015-02)

  Abstract not available

• The assessment of academic literacy at pre-university level: a comparison of the utility of academic literacy tests and grade 10 Home Language results 

  Myburgh, Jo-Mari (University of the Free State, 2015-02)

  The definition of academic literacy utilised for this study proposes that the distinction-making activity accompanying academic discourse constitutes what makes academic discourse unique, which at the same time also ...

• The linguistic landscape of rural South Africa after 1994: a case study of Philippolis 

  Kotze, Chrismi-Rinda (University of the Free State, 2010-01)

• Die rol van taalaktivisme by die herwaardering van moedertaalonderrig in Suid-Afrikaanse skole 

  Snayers, Johny Henry (University of the Free State, 2012-07)

  Afrikaans: Op 8 Mei 1996 het die Grondwetlike Vergadering van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika ’n nuwe demokratiese grondwet aanvaar. Die Grondwet maak voorsiening vir ’n redelike aantal klousules betreffende taalkwessies. ...

• Language-in-education planning in Tanzania: a sociolinguistic analysis 

  Tibategeza, Eustard Rutalemwa (University of the Free State, 2009-11)

  The study presents a sociolinguistic analysis of the current language-in-education policy implementation in Tanzania. The current sociolinguistic thinking on bilingual education and language-in-education planning informs ...

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