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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration10
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese8
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring6
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar5
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences4
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry4
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction4
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative3
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English3
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship3
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis3
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence3
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa3
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions2
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach2
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools2
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse2
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam2
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table2
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape2
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 Approach2
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony2
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes2
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions2
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 Edu2
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga1
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana1
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria1
A corpus-driven analysis of phrase frames in research articles on business management1
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press1
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors1
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts1
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda1
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics1
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage1
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words1
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective1
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective1
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech1
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English1
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency1
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories1
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia1
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades1
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence1
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause1
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction1
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners1
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers1
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives0
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section0
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang0
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles0
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria0
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens0
Internationalising Learning in Higher Education: The Challenges of English as a Medium of Instruction0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa0
Construction Grammar: The Structure of English0
The isiZulu translation of biblical weights and measures0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns0
Translation and feminism in post-Islamic revolution Iran: A sociological approach0
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages0
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences0
Correction0
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends0
Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond0
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal0
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis0
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests0
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters0
Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions0
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?0
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice0
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
Locative determiner phrases and locative relative clauses in isiNdebele0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in ConcertNot Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert, Leketi Makalela2022. Berlin, Bosto0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics), 0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho0
Yahooism to ritualism: Ideological motivations for cyber fraud in selected Yoruba films0
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts0
V2elision in root-suffix hiatus contexts in Malawian CiTonga (Bantu N.15)0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era0
Changes over time in language learning strategy use by foreign language learners0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research0
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom0
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the Evolution of English0
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English0
Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong0
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis0
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria0
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)0
CLIL research over the past three decades: A bibliometric analysis0
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: an analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools0
Literacies and translanguaging in Africa: A critical review of sociocultural perspectives0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective0
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach0
Exploring translanguaging practices in synchronous and asynchronous online-instructed first-year academic literacy interventions0
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
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics0
Neither Sepedi nor Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa is onomastically correct: a colonial imposition0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners0
South African court interpreters’ perceptions of the phenomenon of interpreting0
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective0
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis0
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities0
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Lexis0
Altyd ’n snaakse woordjie tussen-in : Nama click consonants in post-shift Namaqualand Afrikaans0
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners0
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems0
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)0
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya0
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach0
Exploring the readability of Sesotho Grade 12 examination texts using English readability metrics0
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
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues0
Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches0
Correction0
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa0
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education0
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation0
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication0
Translanguaging for academic reading at a South African university0
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi0
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
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo0
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language0
Smuggling in Syntax0
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English0
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices0
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study0
The predictive power of vocabulary, syntax and metacognitive strategies for L2 reading comprehension0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland0
Cause-effect patterns in the discussion sections of articles in language studies journals: The discourse of scientific explanation across language sub-disciplines0
Translanguaging in the classroom: a strategy for English First Additional Language learning0
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles0
Expanding subtitles: An exploration into scaffolding and deepening educational content through subtitling0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis0
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions0
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics0
Why is a gradual transition to Botswana’s languages in higher education necessary? How can it be achieved?0
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation0
Developing and validating a visual questionnaire for the study of impersonalisation strategies: A design thinking approach0
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)0
Food as Greekness: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Rand Daily Mail , 1960–19850
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations0
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria0
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace0
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)0
The link between English language proficiency and academic performance among NC(V) first-year engineering students at a South African TVET college0
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review0
Lexical cohesion in the translation of English-Swahili health care texts0
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