Shanleigh Roux
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shanleigh Roux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shanleigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Roux |
| SIGNATURE | ROUX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1323-4274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The virtual semiotic landscape of Vagina Varsity
This study investigates the virtual semiotic landscape of a South African online advertisement campaign, Vagina Varsity, by sanitary towel company Libresse®. The article extends notions of linguistic landscape studies and virtual semiotic landscape studies to bring attention to the various semiotics used in online spaces for communication and meaning-making. Using a social semiotic approach to multimodality as a theoretical framework, the investi…
Talking Parts, Talking Back
One of the greatest challenges of our times is that of lack of voice for abused bodies. These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and patriarchal capitalism. They are the racialized, sexualized, genderized and godless bodies that first took form in coloniality-modernity in conjunct…
The commodification of women’s empowerment
Playful female skinscapes
Using oral narratives of tattoos and their bodily emplacement, the paper explores the performance of creativity, language and multilingualism, identity and gender among female students at three universities in South Africa. We draw on notions of skinscapes, the material culture of multilingualism and multimodality to illustrate, analyse and discuss the creativity and imagination of the design features of the assembled semiotic material that inspi…
Playful female skinscapes
Using oral narratives of tattoos and their bodily emplacement, the paper explores the performance of creativity, language and multilingualism, identity and gender among female students at three universities in South Africa. We draw on notions of skinscapes, the material culture of multilingualism and multimodality to illustrate, analyse and discuss the creativity and imagination of the design features of the assembled semiotic material that inspi…
The commodification of women’s empowerment
Playful female skinscapes
Using oral narratives of tattoos and their bodily emplacement, the paper explores the performance of creativity, language and multilingualism, identity and gender among female students at three universities in South Africa. We draw on notions of skinscapes, the material culture of multilingualism and multimodality to illustrate, analyse and discuss the creativity and imagination of the design features of the assembled semiotic material that inspi…
The commodification of women’s empowerment
Talking Parts, Talking Back
One of the greatest challenges of our times is that of lack of voice for abused bodies. These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and patriarchal capitalism. They are the racialized, sexualized, genderized and godless bodies that first took form in coloniality-modernity in conjunct…
The virtual semiotic landscape of Vagina Varsity
This study investigates the virtual semiotic landscape of a South African online advertisement campaign, Vagina Varsity, by sanitary towel company Libresse®. The article extends notions of linguistic landscape studies and virtual semiotic landscape studies to bring attention to the various semiotics used in online spaces for communication and meaning-making. Using a social semiotic approach to multimodality as a theoretical framework, the investi…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Multimodality (2 works) · Patriarchy (2 works)