The PhD Team 

I am a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics since 2024, where I teach the Research and Language Pathology modules to third-year BA students, and Design Features to first-year BA students.

I completed my BA degree in 2018 (Cum Laude) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), graduating with a double major in Linguistics and Politics. In 2019, I completed my Honours degree (Cum Laude) in Linguistics. My mini thesis was completed under the supervision of Dr Erin Pretorius. The research focused on a novel case of Preposition-drop (P-drop) in Kaaps expressions of accompaniment.

In July 2022, I completed my MA in Linguistics (Summa Cum Laude) under the supervision of Dr Erin Pretorius and Professor Theresa Biberauer. This research focused on verb-second and verb-third placement in Manenberg Kaaps.

I am currently a third-year PhD candidate (2023–2026) at the University of the Western Cape. My research focuses on discourse particles in Kaaps, a language spoken on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape.

For a copy of my full CV, please do not hestitate to contact me. 

Prof Felix Banda is a senior professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, where he teaches graduate and postgraduate courses in multilingualism and multimodality in society and education, as well as technology-mediated communication across spatial-virtual spaces. He is a National Research Foundation B-rated internationally recognised researcher whose interests are at the intersect of social semiotics, multimodality, multilingualism, translanguaging and the discursive construction of identities in society and education; urban and rural linguistic and cultural practices, linguistic/semiotic landscapes, popular music, multimodal critical pedagogies and the educational implications of the morpho-phonology of African languages for transnational and Pan African orthography design and discourses. He has supervised more than 35 PhD students and more than 50 MA students. He has more than 150 published works in these areas and is well-cited [See Felix Banda Google Scholar]. His recent publications include: Translanguaging and English-African language mother tongues as linguistic dispensation in teaching and learning in a black township school in Cape Town, Current Issues in Language Planning, 19:2, 198-217, (2018); Playful female skinscapes: body narrations of multilingual tattoos, International Journal of Multilingualism, 16:1, 25-41, 2019; [with  Roux SD, Peck A]; Sociolinguistics and modes of class signalling: African perspectives. Journal of sociolinguistics. 24:3–15, 2020; Multilingualism and linguistics landscapes. Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism, Routledge, 428-442. 2024 [with Gabriel Simungala]; Epistemic reconstitution of multilingualism: Disrupting and levelling of linguistic hierarchies of power. Language and Decolonisation. Routledge. 35-54, 2024; Vowel hiatus resolution strategies in the Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga languages: a micro-variation analysis, South African Journal of African Languages, 44:1, 67-71. 2024 [with P. Siame]; Tattoos as multimodal semiotic assemblages. Multimodal Communication. vol. 13, no. 2, 171-183, 2024 [with SD Roux, A Peck]; The social semiotics of Mambwe clan names and praises. African Identities, 1–16, 2024 [with G Simungala]; Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages, Oxford: OUP, 2025. Names of public memory spaces as sites of coloniality, cultural erasure, and downscaling in linguistic landscapes of Northern Zambia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.  DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2025.2460686, 2025 with G Simungala]. His recent books include the volume Theoretical and Applied Aspects of African Languages and Culture.  Cape Town. CASAS, 1-345 pages 2019, and a monograph titled An Orthography and Short Grammar of Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga. Cape Town: CASAS, 2024 [with Pethias Siame].