Browsing by Author "Mpendukana, Sibonile"

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    Multilingual Landscapes : The Politics of Language and Self in a South African Township in Transformation
    (University of the Western Cape, 2009) Mpendukana, Sibonile; Stroud, Christopher; Dept. of Linguistics, Language and Communication; Faculty of Arts
    Much language planning and policy in recent years in South Africa tends to overlook linguistic situations and practices, and focuses on notions of top-down language policy and implementation. This does not fit easily with the current multilingualism dynamics of late post-modern societies, which are increasingly characterized by a culture of consumerism and politics of aspiration. Taking its point of departure from a critical analysis of linguistic practices, in the form of visual literacies (billboards) in a township in South Africa, this thesis aims to draw forth alternative approaches that focus on the notion of sociolinguistic consumption, politics of aspiration and stylization of self, as a means of addressing the linguistic situation, and highlighting implications for language planning and multilingualism.
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    Semiotics of spatial citizenship: Place, race and identity in post-apartheid South Africa
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Mpendukana, Sibonile; Stroud, Christopher
    This thesis uses the work of Frantz Fanon as a perspective to anchor an analysis of semiotic material deployed by students during the #Shackville protests at the University of Cape Town in 2016. Through the notion of Linguistic Citizenship (Stroud 2001) as a decolonial lens, and as a means to account for a myriad of communication tools � linguistic, semiotic materials and the body - as language in the broad sense, the thesis weaves together Fanon and Linguistic Citizenship to grapple with the chronotopic links that time, space and bodies have with the past and the present in South Africa.