Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 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
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English12
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words10
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring10
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes7
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis ApproachDiscourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach6
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry5
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press5
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions4
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts4
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death4
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga3
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya3
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English3
A sociolinguistic study of cluster simplification in Nigerian English3
The link between English language proficiency and academic performance among NC(V) first-year engineering students at a South African TVET college3
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics3
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers3
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices2
SisiXhosa osikhathalele ngantoni na esi ude usindwe ziincwadi ezingaka? Why do you care about isiXhosa so much that you are overwhelmed by so many books?2
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines2
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters2
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English2
Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsIntroduction to Corpus Linguistics, Sandrine Zufferey, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2020). pp. 258+X, ISBN: 978-1-78630-417-92
Exploring translanguaging practices in synchronous and asynchronous online-instructed first-year academic literacy interventions2
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences2
An analysis of the impact of section 4(2)(b) of the South African Use of Official Languages Act of 2012 (on previously marginalised indigenous official languages)2
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages2
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials1
The production of English binomials by Botswana learners of English1
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective1
A diachronic study of self-sourced reporting clauses in mechanical engineering and education1
Construction Grammar: The Structure of English1
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective1
Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and Perspectives1
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction1
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa1
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona1
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners1
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices1
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective1
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective1
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis1
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests1
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems1
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative1
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners1
Syntax in the Treetops1
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom1
The isiZulu translation of biblical weights and measures1
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria1
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction1
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation1
Developing an academic word list for mathematics research articles: A corpus-based approach1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish1
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam1
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives0
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert0
The semantics of Dagbani cut and break verbs0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners0
Translation and translators in the eyes of literary reviewers: A content analysis of book reviews of literary works translated into English0
The exploration of compensation in English literal translation of Sesotho proverbs0
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms0
‘You call your teacher zombi ?’: Nicknaming of Tanzanian secondary school teachers0
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach0
Internationalising Learning in Higher Education: The Challenges of English as a Medium of Instruction0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts0
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal0
Expanding subtitles: An exploration into scaffolding and deepening educational content through subtitling0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo0
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese0
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university0
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis0
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony0
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles0
Exploring the readability of Sesotho Grade 12 examination texts using English readability metrics0
English relative clauses and the production difficulty facing native speakers of Kiswahili0
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence0
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles0
Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation0
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day0
The need to incorporate pragmatics instruction in Ethiopia: A qualitative review0
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends0
Yahooism to ritualism: Ideological motivations for cyber fraud in selected Yoruba films0
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English0
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency0
The teaching and learning of isiXhosa for communicative purposes in teacher education for the Foundation Phase0
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software0
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language0
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: an analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach0
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia0
Phrase frames in rhetorical moves of economic research article discussions0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations0
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers0
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors0
Assessing the effect of duration of exposure to academic writing on university students in the use of conjunctive cohesive devices in academic writing: A case study at Mkwawa University College of Edu0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments0
Translanguaging in the classroom: a strategy for English First Additional Language learning0
Food as Greekness: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Rand Daily Mail , 1960–19850
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration0
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach0
Smuggling in Syntax0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho0
Mapping the knowledge structure of pragmatics (1977–2022): A bibliometric analysis0
Correction0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?0
Language planning and sociocultural change: Afaan Oromoo from minoritisation to revitalisation0
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories0
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles0
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension0
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)0
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English0
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section0
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study0
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades0
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners0
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar0
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts0
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances0
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)0
The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety (Varieties of English Around the World, G65) The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives 0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics), 0
A sociolinguistic analysis of gratitude expressions in Tshivenḓa0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education0
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Lexis0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review0
The affects of elitism in three-tiered semioscapes: Mountain View’s ‘secret of happiness’0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens0
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review0
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches0
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda0
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace0
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities0
Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions0
Linguistic misconceptions of tautology in the English second language context among student educators0
What makes poetic language different? An experiment in genre recognition using word co-occurrence networks in Afrikaans0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice0
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria0
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
South African court interpreters’ perceptions of the phenomenon of interpreting0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research0
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa0
Changing phases of linguistic ecology in Tanzania: The vitality of ethnic languages0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)0
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns0
V2elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)0
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature0
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates0
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba0
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners0
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach0
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment0
Altyd ’n snaakse woordjie tussen-in : Nama click consonants in post-shift Namaqualand Afrikaans0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom0
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions0
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era0
Unintentional insincerity in witnesses’ discourse strategies in the Malawian criminal justice system0
CLIL research over the past three decades: A bibliometric analysis0
Single pract, multiple pragmemes: Constructing the dialectic of individual social contexts in a sample request–response adjacency0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage0
Correction0
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa0
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition0
Neither Sepedi nor Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa is onomastically correct: a colonial imposition0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges0
Discursive construction of ethnicity in the herdsmen and farmers discourse0
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