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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria10
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors8
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech6
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape5
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation5
Teachers’ language ideologies, conflicting language policy and practices in Zimbabwean education system4
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?4
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative4
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university4
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang3
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English3
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software3
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension3
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)3
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace3
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages2
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria2
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia2
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press2
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family2
Do additional, visual elements in recorded lectures influence the processing of subtitles?2
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency2
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools2
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary2
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa2
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective2
Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach2
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship2
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences2
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy1
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi1
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices1
V2elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)1
A corpus-driven analysis of phrase frames in research articles on business management1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction1
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach1
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts1
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French1
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice1
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya1
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause1
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach1
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach1
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication1
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines1
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho1
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English1
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish1
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry1
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances1
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms1
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices1
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo0
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities0
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners0
Changes over time in language learning strategy use by foreign language learners0
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?0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration0
Correction0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy0
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics0
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
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners0
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers0
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 Approach0
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?0
Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis0
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring0
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts0
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education0
Internationalising Learning in Higher Education: The Challenges of English as a Medium of Instruction0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)0
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials0
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages0
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis0
Literacies and translanguaging in Africa: A critical review of sociocultural perspectives0
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates0
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse0
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens0
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences0
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles0
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony0
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions0
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations0
When language revitalisation transcends linguistic issues: Motivations for the revitalisation of Tonga0
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests0
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese0
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona0
The role of translators in cross-language qualitative research in psychology0
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems0
Locative determiner phrases and locative relative clauses in isiNdebele0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language0
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland0
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence0
Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?0
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)0
Editorial0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in ConcertNot Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert, Leketi Makalela2022. Berlin, Bosto0
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners0
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Lexis0
Smuggling in Syntax0
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers0
Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsIntroduction to Corpus Linguistics, Sandrine Zufferey, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2020). pp. 258+X, ISBN: 978-1-78630-417-90
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
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba0
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics), 0
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research0
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions0
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective0
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective0
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues0
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles0
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters0
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam0
Correction0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges0
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles0
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table0
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom0
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends0
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa0
Gewone taal – ’n Oorsig0
English language in African higher education: A systematic review0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics0
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y0
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions0
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era0
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom0
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond0
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition0
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English0
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana0
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
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments0
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