Browsing by Subject "Language variation"

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A critical investigation of deaf comprehension of signed tv news interpretation

Wehrmeyer, Jennifer Ella (2013)

This study investigates factors hampering comprehension of sign language interpretations rendered on South African TV news bulletins in terms of Deaf viewers’ expectancy norms and corpus analysis of authentic interpretations. ...
Dimensions in variationist sociolinguistics : a sociolinguistic investigation of language variation in Macau

Botha, Werner (2011-11)

At the very heart of variationist Sociolinguistics is the notion that language has an underlying structure, and that this structure varies according to external linguistic variables such as age, gender, social class, ...
The melting pot in Ga-Matlala Maserumule with special reference to the Bapedi culture, language and dialects

Mokwana, Mabule Lizzy (2009-11)

The dissertation tries to explain why most of the Bapedi people do not feel free to speak their language when they are among other communities. It explains why the speakers of the so-called ‘inferior’ dialects of the Limpopo ...
Sociolinguistic variation in spoken and written Sesotho : a case study of speech varieties in QwaQwa

Sekere, Ntaoleng Belina (2009-08-25)

This work has taken the region of Qwaqwa as a case study. Through this study, the researcher attempted to join in the debate around language varieties that occur as a result of contact between different language groups. ...

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