Reading the Linguistic landscape: Women, literacy and citizenship In One South African township
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Date
2011
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University of Western Cape
Abstract
The purpose of this study was two-fold: firstly, to do a multimodal analysis of the
multilingual signage, advertisements and graffiti present on different surfaces in the
main business hub of a multicultural community called Wesbank, situated in the
Eastern Metropole of the city of Cape Town. Signage of this nature, taken together,
constitute the 'linguistic landscape' (Gorter, 2006) of a particular space.
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Magister Artium - MA
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Linguistic landscape, Literacy as a social practice, Women, Language as a local practice, Multilingualism