Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry	7
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 Approach	7
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts	7
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words	6
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death	6
Linguistic complexities of immigrant learners in South African schools: Language policy enablers and constraints for school principals	5
A sociolinguistic study of cluster simplification in Nigerian English	5
An analysis of linguistic errors in translations of complainants’ sworn statements	5
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English	5
The semantics of expressive interjections in Xitsonga	4
Imibono yothisha mayelana nezingqinamba zokungathuthuki kwekhono lokufunda ngokuhlolisisa kubafundi besiZulu bolimi lwaseKhaya emabangeni aphezulu KwaZulu-Natali	4
An analysis of homonymy and polysemy in Xitsonga	4
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English	4
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press	4
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)	3
Student reflections on multilingual dubbing and subtitling of instructional videos	3
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages	3
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga	3
Linguistic faces of multilingualism: Billboards and notices in Sesotho sa Leboa	3
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices	3
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines	3
The link between English language proficiency and academic performance among NC(V) first-year engineering students at a South African TVET college	3
Learners’ perceptions of English essay writing problems in northern Namibia: Towards Oshiwambo-English translanguaging discourse in English classrooms	3
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences	3
Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsIntroduction to Corpus Linguistics, Sandrine Zufferey, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2020). pp. 258+X, ISBN: 978-1-78630-417-9	3

A diachronic study of self-sourced reporting clauses in mechanical engineering and education	2
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices	2
Probing into ESL teachers’ use of translanguaging: Perspectives and operationalisations	2
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners	2
A linguistic analysis of abbreviations, acronyms and ‘acreviations’ in African languages	2
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective	2
Construction Grammar: The Structure of English	2
Translanguaging as an effective pedagogical tool for teaching English second language short stories in selected township high schools	2
Syntax in the Treetops	2
Exploring translanguaging practices in synchronous and asynchronous online-instructed first-year academic literacy interventions	2
The isiZulu translation of biblical weights and measures	2
The production of English binomials by Botswana learners of English	2
Exploring teachers’ views on factors affecting the teaching of mother tongue: the case of Afaan Oromo	2
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona	2
Decolonial contestations of multilingualism and translanguaging in English for Academic Purposes: A case of the University of Limpopo	2
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters	2
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective	1
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates	1
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis	1
Translation and translators in the eyes of literary reviewers: A content analysis of book reviews of literary works translated into English	1
Language Policy in Action	1
Developing an academic word list for mathematics research articles: A corpus-based approach	1
Reinforcing or challenging stereotypes? Uncovering Africa’s image in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary	1
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests	1
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal	1
The intersection of Indian culture and language in three secondary schools in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Translating Insila kaShaka into English: literal or free translation in rendering idioms	1
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners	1
Understanding reception of visual puns in sustainable organisation logos: A semiotic approach	1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction	1
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam	1
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom	1
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table	1
World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language	1
Linguistic misconceptions of tautology in the English second language context among student educators	1
African Englishes: Contemporary Trends and Sociolinguistic Shifts	1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction	1
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese	1
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment	1
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles	1
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles	1
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles	1
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis	1
‘You call your teacher zombi ?’: Nicknaming of Tanzanian secondary school teachers	1
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials	1
Translating sports science journals into English: A case study	1
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative	1
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners	1
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria	1
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions	1

Systematic scoping review into educational linguistics praxis in language learning and teaching	1
Conventionalised impoliteness in Nigerians’ reactions to the Buhari-led government’s Federal Character Principle	1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish	1
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research	1
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation	1
Mapping the knowledge structure of pragmatics (1977–2022): A bibliometric analysis	1
Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and Perspectives	1
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research	1
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective	1
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa	1
Neither Sepedi nor Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa is onomastically correct: a colonial imposition	0
Shujaa Okonkwo analysis from the perspective of Eco-Translatology	0
Call a spade a spade, Mr. Translator!	0
Food as Greekness: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Rand Daily Mail , 1960–1985	0
Enhancing academic writing in higher education: the role of African languages in decolonising academic literacy courses	0
Iqhaza elibanjwa ukuxuba izilimi emakilasini anabafundi abamnyama abakhuluma izilimi ezehlukene emabangeni 10-12 esifundazweni iKwaZulu-Natali	0
Non-World-Standard-English idioms and other fixed expressions in Kenyan and four other African varieties of English	0
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence	0
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives	0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners	0
Intlonipho izala uzinzo : Ukusetyenziswa kolwimi lokuhlonipha kwintlalo nenkcubeko yamaXhosa	0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?	0
Izinselelo eziphathelene nomsebenzi wabantu abangotolika emihlanganweni yokucobelelana ngolwazi	0
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software	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
Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions	0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences	0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom	0
The impact of scaffolding and feedback practices on ESL collaborative writing performance	0
Communicative competence and emotion regulation as predictors of students’ entrepreneurial intentions	0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English	0
South African court interpreters’ perceptions of the phenomenon of interpreting	0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis	0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches	0
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: an analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools	0
Reframing bilingual education through Translanguaging and Multimodality: A Review of Translanguaging and Multimodality as Flow, Agency, and a New Sense of Advocacy in and from t	0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature	0
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French	0
The teaching and learning of isiXhosa for communicative purposes in teacher education for the Foundation Phase	0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments	0
Die dinamiek van regverdigingsaanduiders en brongebruik in studentetekste: ʼn Korpusgebaseerde ondersoek	0
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda	0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions	0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)	0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa	0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens	0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria	0
Situating the African ways of knowing in the decolonialisation of the academic literacy curriculum in South Africa	0
Uncovering the relationship among body placements, colour and linguistic associations	0
Izinselelo ezibhekene nokufunda nokufundiswa kwezilimi zomdabu ezikhungweni zemfundo ephakeme eNingizimu Afrika	0
Connecting Chinese intangible culture to Swahili audiences: Exploring thechallenges and strategies in translation	0
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades	0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency	0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi	0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)	0
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication	0
Phrase frames in rhetorical moves of economic research article discussions	0
The need to incorporate pragmatics instruction in Ethiopia: A qualitative review	0
Code-switching in a multilingual classroom: Perspectives and experiences of Oshiwambo, by students of the University of Namibia, Khomasdal campus	0
Discursive construction of ethnicity in the herdsmen and farmers discourse	0
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 Edu	0
Rhetoric in action: Dissecting discourse strategies in Peter Obi’s speech at Chatham House in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, 16 January 2023	0
Something must kill a man: Linguistic choices as ideological performance in the Nigerian Army’s morale boosting songs	0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo	0
Overgeneralisation of derivational rules by ESL secondary school students: The case of one high school in Maseru district, Lesotho	0
Writers’ stance in academic writing of an open distance and e-learning (ODeL) institution	0
Cultural complexity when translating Sesotho sa Leboa idioms and proverbs into English	0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis	0
The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar	0
Altyd ’n snaakse woordjie tussen-in : Nama click consonants in post-shift Namaqualand Afrikaans	0
Translanguaging spaces as marketing strategies in the linguistic landscapes of Zambia	0
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior	0
The role of translanguaging pedagogy and practice in Sepedi language intellectualisation	0
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba	0
Languages without limits: Translanguaging for curriculum transformation in the Global South	0
The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation	0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective	0
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories	0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review	0
An examination of the phonetic and phonological influence on stuttering in bilingual third-year students at the International University of Management	0

Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong	0
Development of basic school learners’ critical thinking skills in Ghana: Is the English language a threat?	0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in Introductions in medical research articles	0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy	0
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms	0
Rethinking literacy education in Kavango West	0
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English	0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)	0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts	0
The affects of elitism in three-tiered semioscapes: Mountain View’s ‘secret of happiness’	0
Prejudices encountered by speakers of indigenous languages during the recording of suspect/witness statements at police stations in Zimbabwe	0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation	0
Yahooism to ritualism: Ideological motivations for cyber fraud in selected Yoruba films	0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers	0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions	0
My God is greater than the soothsayer: The conceptualisation of Chim in contemporary Igbo personal names	0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo	0
Language planning and sociocultural change: Afaan Oromoo from minoritisation to revitalisation	0
Reflections on vowel lowering and raising in Malawian CiTonga (N.15)	0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section	0
Changing phases of linguistic ecology in Tanzania: The vitality of ethnic languages	0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y	0
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners	0
Demand-driven English course for medical students at Hage Geingob UNAM, Namibia	0
Unintentional insincerity in witnesses’ discourse strategies in the Malawian criminal justice system	0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education	0
‘I owe you just 100k’: Attitudinal perception of selected Nigerian English expressions	0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach	0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage	0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era	0
Diachronic change in lexical bundles in research article abstracts of applied linguistics	0
Tšhomišo ya leleme la Sepedi dikgokaganyong tša leago: Tshekaseko ya Facebook le X	0
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin	0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends	0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics	0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland	0
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse	0
Translanguaging in the classroom: a strategy for English First Additional Language learning	0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations	0
Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education: Language, Culture and Textual Analysis	0
Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction: A Practical Guide	0
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia	0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice	0
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)	0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?	0
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study	0
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace	0
The semantics of Dagbani cut and break verbs	0
Trends and sustainability of semantic rhetoric translation research: Insights from bibliometric analysis	0
Exploring the readability of Sesotho Grade 12 examination texts using English readability metrics	0
Critical reflection on the use of English concord by bilingual students	0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa	0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach	0
Translanguaging in assessments: perspectives on the strategies and implications for multilingual classrooms	0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages	0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities	0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy	0
What makes poetic language different? An experiment in genre recognition using word co-occurrence networks in Afrikaans	0
‘Votescapes’: Linguistic landscape and party language policy during the 2019 South African election	0
CLIL research over the past three decades: A bibliometric analysis	0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa	0
The exploration of compensation in English literal translation of Sesotho proverbs	0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners	0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert	0
Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse: from Polysemous to Powerful	0
Single pract, multiple pragmemes: Constructing the dialectic of individual social contexts in a sample request–response adjacency	0
Bantu languages in focus	0
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony	0
A speech act analysis of selected dialogues in Nigerian home movies	0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho	0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language	0
Investigating author impact in South African interpreting research	0
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: Perspectives on the translation of cultural concepts from Xitsonga into English	0
Translanguaging for transformation in higher education: A case study of two institutions	0
Sonic stories, sensory ethnographies and immersive forensic storytelling in Travelling While Black	0
Expanding subtitles: An exploration into scaffolding and deepening educational content through subtitling	0
English relative clauses and the production difficulty facing native speakers of Kiswahili	0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence	0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review	0
Describing the collocation feature in finite-predicator Sesotho personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach	0
Knowledge mapping of global research on natural language processing, 1958–2023	0
A move structure analysis of cover letters produced by South African students	0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration	0
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools	0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics),	0
Sociolinguistic developments in Windhoek: A contextualised quantitative survey	0
Perceptions of translanguaging pedagogy: A case of Grade 7 English First Additional Language (EFAL) learners in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province	0
A sociolinguistic analysis of gratitude expressions in Tshivenḓa	0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis	0
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa	0
Sociolinguistic insights into Tshivenḓa epitaphs: Structure, euphemism, and cultural reflection	0
Uphenyo ngondabuzekwayo wesisho esithi, ‘Azikhale’ esiqhakanjiswe uNgizwe Mchunu nencazelo yaso	0
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues	0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges	0