Language Matters

Papers
(The median citation count of Language Matters is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Portrait-Corpus Study of Language Attitudes towards Afrikaans and English7
Namibian Teachers’ Beliefs about Medium of Instruction and Language Education Policy Implementation6
The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa4
Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English4
Indigenous Languages in an Online Space: Translanguaging for Visibilisation of Multilingualism and Multisemiotic Modes3
Language Choice and Identity Construction among Bilinguals at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana3
Metaphor Frequency and Distribution in Three Sesotho Newspapers’ Coverage of HIV and AIDS3
Investigating Teachers’ Perceptions of Critical Literacy: A Case Study from Two South African Township Schools2
Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities2
Attitudes of Nigerians Towards BBC Pidgin: A Preliminary Study2
Encounters with Xenophobia: Language Learning Experiences of Cameroonian and Nigerian Migrants in South Africa2
A Cross-Linguistic Study of BLOOD Metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho2
The Officialisation of South African Sign Language—What Is There to Gain?2
Editorial1
A Multidimensional Interface and Nigerian Political Discourse: A Case Study of Ideological Issues Underlying Coronavirus Discourse in Nigeria1
Editorial1
“Linking the Dots”: Metaphors in the Narrative of Self-Justification by Former President Zuma1
Objection Overruled: Language Dynamics and Power Relations in Courtroom Interactions1
Scripting Identities: Reading Language Dynamics and Ideologies on Shop Signs in Kampala1
Material Evaluation of Communicative Competence in a Setswana Beginner Language Learning Course1
Attitudes of Educated Nigerians towards Varieties of English1
Discourse Tactic(s) in Police-Suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria1
Public Access to, Involvement in, and the Right to Petition Parliament in Zimbabwe1
A Pragma-Rhetorical Analysis of Speeches of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on COVID-191
Riding on Slogans and Mottos: Bicycle Taxis as Mobile Bodies of Meaning in Malawi1
Students’ Perceived Language Competence and Attitudes Towards Multilingualism at a South African University1
Evaluating the PEDS:DM Developmental Screening Tool in Zulu and Northern Sotho1
To Bewithor Not: Emotional Causality and Afrikaans PrepositionalmetandvanConstructions1
An Ecological Approach to the Implementation of Language-in-Education Policy: A Kalanga Case Study1
Imagined Futures and New Technology: Youths’ Language Attitudes in Songea, Tanzania1
Multilingual Assessment: Levelling the Cognition–Emotion Playing Field at the University of the Western Cape1
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Former President Nelson Mandela's Two State of the Nation Addresses (1994 and 1999)0
Relational Work Strategies in Seller–Buyer Haggling Exchanges in Markets of Port Harcourt, Nigeria0
Grounding Mechanisms in Selected Interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari0
Language Contact in Santrokofi, a Ghana-Togo Mountain Language Community: Impact on Selee0
Lexical Variation in Regional Modern Standard Arabic0
Effects of Declarative and Procedural Memory in the Development of Grammatical Structures0
Diphthongs in Igbo? Language Contact in the Igbo and Anaang Borderlands0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Editorial0
The Factative and Perfect Aspect Markers in Degema and Kalaḅarị0
Call for Contributions: A Special Issue on Afrikaans Sociolinguistics0
Obstacles and Challenges Confronting Tonga Revitalisation in Zimbabwe0
Congruence between Teachers’ Spoken Discourse and Students’ Vocabulary Levels: Is the Gap Too Wide?0
Elicited Production of Part/Whole and General/ Specific Articles by Four- to Nine-Year-Old Afrikaans- and South African English-Speaking Monolinguals0
World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language , by Bertus van Rooy World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language , by Bertus van Rooy,0
Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power , edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, and Cristine Severo0
30 Years On0
Mapping Patterns of Ideologies in Nigeria’s Socio-political Discourse: Evidence from Herdsmen Discourse0
Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest0
An Analysis of Selected Supreme Court Rulings on Human Rights Violation in Nigeria0
Some Missionary-Influenced Early Borrowed Words and Names in Xhosa0
Pictures of Language: Language Metaphors in a Recent Language Policy Framework0
Noun Classes and Agreement in Dawida0
Back to the Future: Uncovering Deeper Meanings in Historical Newspaper Texts0
Multilingualism in Education: The Lived Experience of the Marginalised Language Learner0
Editorial0
Language Preservation, Evolution, and Loss: The Case of the Shona Language Spoken in Kenya0
The Dynamics of Language: A Linguistic Analysis of the Framing of COVID-19 in Eswatini0
Exploring Euphemisms as Taboo Avoidance Strategies in the Mabia Languages0
Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English0
Challenges Facing Mpondo Learners in Learning Standard Xhosa: Teachers’ Perspectives0
Editorial0
Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Postcolonial English Second Language Context0
Early Multilingualism and Bi/Multilingual Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions0
Positive Politeness in Writing-Centre Consultations with an Emphasis on Praise0
Phonological and Semantic Variations in Tsonga Spoken in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria0
Language Styles of Automotive Mechanics in Selected Garages in Dar es Salaam0
Foundation Phase Teachers’ Experiences with Teaching Xhosa Home Language to Baca-Speaking Learners in Umzimkhulu0
Editorial0
“A Name That Recognises You”: Local Analysis of Semiotic Dynamics in Semi-Informal Markets in South Africa0
Police Written Discourse: Analysing Notable Glitches in Police Reports0
Editorial0
Modelling Bilinguals’ Language Shift Intentions: Towards the Development of the “Context-Dependent Theory of Language Shift”0
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