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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities12
The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa7
Evaluating the PEDS:DM Developmental Screening Tool in Zulu and Northern Sotho6
Positive Politeness in Writing-Centre Consultations with an Emphasis on Praise5
Attitudes of Educated Nigerians towards Varieties of English5
Mapping Patterns of Ideologies in Nigeria’s Socio-political Discourse: Evidence from Herdsmen Discourse5
Riding on Slogans and Mottos: Bicycle Taxis as Mobile Bodies of Meaning in Malawi4
Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power , edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, and Cristine Severo3
Twisting Traditional Proverbs to Suit a Pandemic Situation: A Study of COVID-19 Postproverbials among the Nzema3
Exploring Euphemisms as Taboo Avoidance Strategies in the Mabia Languages3
To Bewithor Not: Emotional Causality and Afrikaans PrepositionalmetandvanConstructions2
Encounters with Xenophobia: Language Learning Experiences of Cameroonian and Nigerian Migrants in South Africa2
A Pragma-Rhetorical Analysis of Speeches of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on COVID-192
Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest2
Discourse Tactic(s) in Police-Suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria2
Material Evaluation of Communicative Competence in a Setswana Beginner Language Learning Course1
An Analysis of Selected Supreme Court Rulings on Human Rights Violation in Nigeria1
Investigating Teachers’ Perceptions of Critical Literacy: A Case Study from Two South African Township Schools1
Early Multilingualism and Bi/Multilingual Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions1
Editorial1
Indigenous Languages in an Online Space: Translanguaging for Visibilisation of Multilingualism and Multisemiotic Modes1
30 Years On1
Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria1
Foundation Phase Teachers’ Experiences with Teaching Xhosa Home Language to Baca-Speaking Learners in Umzimkhulu1
The Linguistic Landscape of Places of Worship in Accra: Religion and Multilingualism in Ghana1
Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English1
Editorial1
An Ecological Approach to the Implementation of Language-in-Education Policy: A Kalanga Case Study1
Obstacles and Challenges Confronting Tonga Revitalisation in Zimbabwe1
Some Missionary-Influenced Early Borrowed Words and Names in Xhosa0
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Former President Nelson Mandela's Two State of the Nation Addresses (1994 and 1999)0
Multilingualism in Education: The Lived Experience of the Marginalised Language Learner0
Congruence between Teachers’ Spoken Discourse and Students’ Vocabulary Levels: Is the Gap Too Wide?0
Intercultural Communicative Competence of Chinese Language Learners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo0
Lexical Variation in Regional Modern Standard Arabic0
Back to the Future: Uncovering Deeper Meanings in Historical Newspaper Texts0
Editorial0
Police Written Discourse: Analysing Notable Glitches in Police Reports0
Language Contact in Santrokofi, a Ghana-Togo Mountain Language Community: Impact on Selee0
A Multidimensional Interface and Nigerian Political Discourse: A Case Study of Ideological Issues Underlying Coronavirus Discourse in Nigeria0
The Dynamics of Language: A Linguistic Analysis of the Framing of COVID-19 in Eswatini0
Editorial0
Challenges Facing Mpondo Learners in Learning Standard Xhosa: Teachers’ Perspectives0
Public Access to, Involvement in, and the Right to Petition Parliament in Zimbabwe0
Language Choice and Identity Construction among Bilinguals at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana0
Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Postcolonial English Second Language Context0
Language Styles of Automotive Mechanics in Selected Garages in Dar es Salaam0
Phonological and Semantic Variations in Tsonga Spoken in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Relational Work Strategies in Seller–Buyer Haggling Exchanges in Markets of Port Harcourt, Nigeria0
Modelling Bilinguals’ Language Shift Intentions: Towards the Development of the “Context-Dependent Theory of Language Shift”0
An Applied Linguistic Analysis of Social Transformation: Bult Magazine (1987–2022)0
Objection Overruled: Language Dynamics and Power Relations in Courtroom Interactions0
“A Name That Recognises You”: Local Analysis of Semiotic Dynamics in Semi-Informal Markets in South Africa0
Diphthongs in Igbo? Language Contact in the Igbo and Anaang Borderlands0
Noun Classes and Agreement in Dawida0
Language Preservation, Evolution, and Loss: The Case of the Shona Language Spoken in Kenya0
Metaphor Frequency and Distribution in Three Sesotho Newspapers’ Coverage of HIV and AIDS0
Pictures of Language: Language Metaphors in a Recent Language Policy Framework0
A Discourse-Based Analysis of Perceptions of Nigerian Pidgin Among the Nigerian Diaspora0
Editorial0
Scripting Identities: Reading Language Dynamics and Ideologies on Shop Signs in Kampala0
Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre0
Students’ Perceived Language Competence and Attitudes Towards Multilingualism at a South African University0
Creating Student-Authored Learning Material: A Case of Kaaps-Speaking Engineering Students0
Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English0
Editorial0
Editorial0
A Portrait-Corpus Study of Language Attitudes towards Afrikaans and English0
Consonants of Lesotho English: Features and Comparison with South African Varieties0
Speaking Venda in Public: Venda Youths’ Perception of Their L1 in Soshanguve0
Effects of Declarative and Procedural Memory in the Development of Grammatical Structures0
The Officialisation of South African Sign Language—What Is There to Gain?0
Editorial0
Grounding Mechanisms in Selected Interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari0
Call for Contributions: A Special Issue on Afrikaans Sociolinguistics0
Editorial0
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
Namibian Teachers’ Beliefs about Medium of Instruction and Language Education Policy Implementation0
Linguistic Landscapes and Dominant Language Constellations: The Multilingual Behaviour of Minoritised Migrant Populations in Lusaka, Zambia0
Attitudes of Nigerians Towards BBC Pidgin: A Preliminary Study0
A Survey of Language Shift in Communicative Domain Preferences among Idoma Youths0
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