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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
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?10
Translanguaging during collaborative learning: A ‘transcollab’ model of teaching7
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors7
Lexical bundle variation across moves in abstracts of medical research articles6
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria6
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape5
Translanguaging pedagogy in selected English First Additional Language writing classrooms4
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech4
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation4
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software3
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace3
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?3
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative3
Learning trouble in mentoring conversations3
Do additional, visual elements in recorded lectures influence the processing of subtitles?2
Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach2
The extraction of terminology list using ParaConc for creating a quadrilingual dictionary2
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university2
Linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yorùbá anthroponyms2
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia2
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship2
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension2
Teachers’ language ideologies, conflicting language policy and practices in Zimbabwean education system2
Verb stem influence on object marking in Chiyao12
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English2
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective1
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices1
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press1
Methodological differences matter: Identification thresholds and corpus composition in lexical bundle research1
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances1
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts1
Corruption in a diachronic corpus of Nigerian presidential speeches1
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya1
Towards modelled testing of productive knowledge of collocations1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause1
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa1
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
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English1
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences1
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach1
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang1
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?0
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction0
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English0
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations0
A corpus-driven analysis of phrase frames in research articles on business management0
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems0
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms0
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective0
The role of translators in cross-language qualitative research in psychology0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section0
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese0
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices0
English language in African higher education: A systematic review0
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria0
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction0
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho0
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
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study0
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics), 0
Smuggling in Syntax0
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
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review0
Literacies and translanguaging in Africa: A critical review of sociocultural perspectives0
Editorial0
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences0
Internationalising Learning in Higher Education: The Challenges of English as a Medium of Instruction0
Correction0
When language revitalisation transcends linguistic issues: Motivations for the revitalisation of Tonga0
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges0
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective0
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana0
Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities0
The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language0
The missing link in ELT materials: A data-driven conceptualisation0
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)0
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo0
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
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials0
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages0
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics0
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach0
The efficacy of the context-adaptive model in facilitating utilisation-focused language programme evaluation0
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y0
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Lexis0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom0
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice0
Measuring semantic relatedness between words using related synsets in African Wordnet0
Utilising lecturer input to inform the design of an audio e-assessment tool0
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis0
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation0
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners0
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics0
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond0
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles0
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria0
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns0
Locative determiner phrases and locative relative clauses in isiNdebele0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective0
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles0
An investigation into native and non-native teachers’ assessment of Chinese students’ English writing0
Are reading comprehension ability and its strategies transferable from L1 to L2? Evidence from upper-intermediate EFL learners in Iran0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi0
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family0
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools0
Gewone taal – ’n Oorsig0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria0
The use of tense and aspect in isiZulu and English by isiZulu L1/English L2 speakers: An empirical investigation0
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
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa0
Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis0
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education0
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words0
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners0
Correction0
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
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?0
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa0
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches0
A semantic-pragmatic approach to sentence structure in advertising language0
V2elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)0
Changes over time in language learning strategy use by foreign language learners0
Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers0
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