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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa8
Attitudes of Educated Nigerians towards Varieties of English8
Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities8
Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power , edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, and Cristine Severo7
Riding on Slogans and Mottos: Bicycle Taxis as Mobile Bodies of Meaning in Malawi7
Twisting Traditional Proverbs to Suit a Pandemic Situation: A Study of COVID-19 Postproverbials among the Nzema7
Exploring Euphemisms as Taboo Avoidance Strategies in the Mabia Languages7
Mapping Patterns of Ideologies in Nigeria’s Socio-political Discourse: Evidence from Herdsmen Discourse7
What Constitutes Success in a Language Revitalisation Initiative? Views from the Kalanga Speech Community6
Attitudes towards Portuguese, Indigenous Languages, and Code-Switching in Mozambique: A Matched-Guise Study5
A Pragma-Rhetorical Analysis of Speeches of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on COVID-194
The Development of Academic and Plain English Parallel Word Lists and Subtitles for Undergraduate Students4
Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest3
Encounters with Xenophobia: Language Learning Experiences of Cameroonian and Nigerian Migrants in South Africa3
Discourse Tactic(s) in Police-Suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria3
30 Years On2
Material Evaluation of Communicative Competence in a Setswana Beginner Language Learning Course2
Editorial2
Indigenous Languages in an Online Space: Translanguaging for Visibilisation of Multilingualism and Multisemiotic Modes2
Modelling Bilinguals’ Language Shift Intentions: Towards the Development of the “Context-Dependent Theory of Language Shift”1
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
Early Multilingualism and Bi/Multilingual Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions1
Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria1
Intercultural Communicative Competence of Chinese Language Learners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo1
Power Relations in the 1951 and 2017 English Translations of Insila kaShaka1
Assessing the Relevance of the 1992 Namibian Language in Education Policy (NLiEP) Document1
A Critical Appraisal Study of Gender-Based Violence Discourse on Nairaland Digital Community1
Obstacles and Challenges Confronting Tonga Revitalisation in Zimbabwe1
Speaking Venda in Public: Venda Youths’ Perception of Their L1 in Soshanguve1
Objection Overruled: Language Dynamics and Power Relations in Courtroom Interactions1
An Analysis of Selected Supreme Court Rulings on Human Rights Violation in Nigeria1
Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English1
Linguistic Marginalisation and Multilingual Policy Gaps: African Language Speakers’ University Experiences Explored1
Editorial1
Lexical Variation in Regional Modern Standard Arabic1
Police Written Discourse: Analysing Notable Glitches in Police Reports0
Grounding Mechanisms in Selected Interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari0
Effects of Declarative and Procedural Memory in the Development of Grammatical Structures0
Foreignisation and Translator Visibility: Subversion of English in Translated Swati Short Stories0
Call for Contributions: A Special Issue on Afrikaans Sociolinguistics0
An Investigation into Some Orthographic Challenges in Afan Oromo: The Case of Digraphs0
World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language , by Bertus van Rooy0
An Applied Linguistic Analysis of Social Transformation: Bult Magazine (1987–2022)0
The Officialisation of South African Sign Language—What Is There to Gain?0
Neologisms in Social Media-Based Political Discourse on Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election0
Creating Student-Authored Learning Material: A Case of Kaaps-Speaking Engineering Students0
Back to the Future: Uncovering Deeper Meanings in Historical Newspaper Texts0
Editorial0
Attitudes of Nigerians Towards BBC Pidgin: A Preliminary Study0
Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Postcolonial English Second Language Context0
Editorial0
Language Contact in Santrokofi, a Ghana-Togo Mountain Language Community: Impact on Selee0
Language Preservation, Evolution, and Loss: The Case of the Shona Language Spoken in Kenya0
Pictures of Language: Language Metaphors in a Recent Language Policy Framework0
Language Styles of Automotive Mechanics in Selected Garages in Dar es Salaam0
Editorial0
A Discourse-Based Analysis of Perceptions of Nigerian Pidgin Among the Nigerian Diaspora0
Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English0
Challenges Facing Mpondo Learners in Learning Standard Xhosa: Teachers’ Perspectives0
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Former President Nelson Mandela's Two State of the Nation Addresses (1994 and 1999)0
Linguistic Landscapes and Dominant Language Constellations: The Multilingual Behaviour of Minoritised Migrant Populations in Lusaka, Zambia0
Congruence between Teachers’ Spoken Discourse and Students’ Vocabulary Levels: Is the Gap Too Wide?0
A Survey of Language Shift in Communicative Domain Preferences among Idoma Youths0
Some Missionary-Influenced Early Borrowed Words and Names in Xhosa0
Phonological and Semantic Variations in Tsonga Spoken in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
On Critical Linguistic Landscape in Motion: A Decolonial Approach to Automobile Graffiti0
Editorial0
Noun Classes and Agreement in Dawida0
Languaging in Law: Applying Decolonial and Translingual Scholarship in a Law School’s Writing Centre0
The Impact of Language Contact on Terminology Development and Orthography in Xitsonga0
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
Consonants of Lesotho English: Features and Comparison with South African Varieties0
Identity Construction and Its Influence on Language Shift among Ghanaian and Nigerian Bi/Multilinguals0
Aspects of Digital Multilingualism in Twenty-First Century Retail Banking in Nigeria0
Scripting Identities: Reading Language Dynamics and Ideologies on Shop Signs in Kampala0
Editorial0
Students’ Perceived Language Competence and Attitudes Towards Multilingualism at a South African University0
“A Name That Recognises You”: Local Analysis of Semiotic Dynamics in Semi-Informal Markets in South Africa0
Editorial0
Language Choice and Identity Construction among Bilinguals at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana0
Relational Work Strategies in Seller–Buyer Haggling Exchanges in Markets of Port Harcourt, Nigeria0
Editorial0
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