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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts16
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry10
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes6
The semantics of expressive interjections in Xitsonga5
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press5
A sociolinguistic study of cluster simplification in Nigerian English5
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions5
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 Approach5
An analysis of homonymy and polysemy in Xitsonga4
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics3
Linguistic faces of multilingualism: Billboards and notices in Sesotho sa Leboa3
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words3
Vocalic and intervocalic intervals in the speech of educated Idoma speakers of English3
Learners’ perceptions of English essay writing problems in northern Namibia: Towards Oshiwambo-English translanguaging discourse in English classrooms3
Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsIntroduction to Corpus Linguistics, Sandrine Zufferey, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2020). pp. 258+X, ISBN: 978-1-78630-417-93
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death3
The link between English language proficiency and academic performance among NC(V) first-year engineering students at a South African TVET college3
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
False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga3
An analysis of linguistic errors in translations of complainants’ sworn statements3
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English3
English lingua franca as a language of learning and teaching in northern Namibia: A report on Oshiwambo teachers' experiences2
Translating taboo words in health care texts from English into Swahili in Kenya2
Cross-cultural conceptualisations of schizophrenia in Cameroonian languages2
Exploring translanguaging practices in synchronous and asynchronous online-instructed first-year academic literacy interventions2
The production of English binomials by Botswana learners of English2
Translanguaging as an effective pedagogical tool for teaching English second language short stories in selected township high schools2
Exploring teachers’ views on factors affecting the teaching of mother tongue: the case of Afaan Oromo2
Merging English Home Language and First Additional Language curricula: Implications for future quality assurance practices2
Native English and non-native authors’ utilisation of lexical bundles: A corpus-based study of scholarly public health papers2
Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective2
Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective2
The isiZulu translation of biblical weights and measures2
Probing into ESL teachers’ use of translanguaging: Perspectives and operationalisations2
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters2
A diachronic study of self-sourced reporting clauses in mechanical engineering and education2
Patterns of lexical innovation in Nigerian English2
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
Decolonial contestations of multilingualism and translanguaging in English for Academic Purposes: A case of the University of Limpopo2
Construction Grammar: The Structure of English2
The (re)making of an African language: Revisiting epistemologies for quality assessment practices2
Functional analysis of stance nouns in English Language Teaching research articles1
Multilingualism in Southern Africa: Issues and Perspectives1
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative1
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective1
Pragmatic functions of deixis in Nigerian newspaper editorials1
The comprehension of ellipsis in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners1
Developing an academic word list for mathematics research articles: A corpus-based approach1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction1
Referring Expressions, Pragmatics and Style: Reference and Beyond1
Adoption of mixed method designs in applied linguistics research1
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation1
Effects of bilingualism on the cognitive development of selected Nigerian University undergraduates1
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa1
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis1
Grammaticality judgements of tense by young adult speakers of Shona1
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners1
A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish1
Mapping the knowledge structure of pragmatics (1977–2022): A bibliometric analysis1
Investigating vocabulary knowledge among English as a Second Language (ESL) learners1
Kimbu speakers’ attitudes toward language endangerment1
A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests1
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction1
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam1
An encounter with some translators: Challenges they faced when translating Long Walk to Freedom1
Syntax in the Treetops1
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective1
Naming and describing in Tanure Ojaide’sThe Fate of Vultures and Other Poems1
A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles1
Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis1
Conventionalised impoliteness in Nigerians’ reactions to the Buhari-led government’s Federal Character Principle0
L1 influence on stress placement by English language teachers in Anambra State (Nigeria)0
Profiling a microeconomics noun collocation list: A corpus-based approach0
A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y0
Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts0
Food as Greekness: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Rand Daily Mail , 1960–19850
Subject-verb agreement marking by Ghanaian learners of French0
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage0
Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions0
IRIS: Empowering language researchers with access to quality materials and instruments0
English L2 vocabulary learning and teaching: concepts, principles, and pedagogy0
Critical reflection on the use of English concord by bilingual students0
Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories0
Die dinamiek van regverdigingsaanduiders en brongebruik in studentetekste: ʼn Korpusgebaseerde ondersoek0
Language planning and sociocultural change: Afaan Oromoo from minoritisation to revitalisation0
Teaching critical literacy in South African English classrooms: Constraints and affordances0
Code-switching as a bilingual and multilingual linguistic strategy in the construction of Amathaf’entandabuzo0
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria0
Attitudes of University of Botswana humanities students to mother tongue education0
Exploring intrasectional variations of lexical bundles in medical research articles0
Discursive construction of ethnicity in the herdsmen and farmers discourse0
‘I owe you just 100k’: Attitudinal perception of selected Nigerian English expressions0
The affects of elitism in three-tiered semioscapes: Mountain View’s ‘secret of happiness’0
Knowing you, knowing me: Identity, agency and the analyst’s discourse in the context of a South African university classroom0
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace0
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades0
The teaching and learning of isiXhosa for communicative purposes in teacher education for the Foundation Phase0
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar0
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony0
Enhancing academic writing in higher education: the role of African languages in decolonising academic literacy courses0
Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior0
(Mis)versioning as a quality assurance compromise in the development of numeracy curriculum in African languages0
Constellations, technicality, iconisation and Eskom: A case from South Africa’s Business Day0
Socio-pragmatics of language use in selected Pentecostal churches0
Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics)Discourse Structuring Markers in English (A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics), 0
Translation and translators in the eyes of literary reviewers: A content analysis of book reviews of literary works translated into English0
CLIL research over the past three decades: A bibliometric analysis0
Call a spade a spade, Mr. Translator!0
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia0
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table0
The exploration of compensation in English literal translation of Sesotho proverbs0
The search for V-stranding VP ellipsis in isiXhosa0
The helpfulness of code-switching in teaching Afrikaans as a first additional language0
Multidimensional interaction of L2 writing fluency and cohesion: A complexity theory perspective0
Co-constructing identities and ideological positions in conversational storytelling among friends0
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria0
Neither Sepedi nor Northern Sotho/Sesotho sa Leboa is onomastically correct: a colonial imposition0
Propaganda as expressed through nouns0
Knowledge mapping of global research on natural language processing, 1958–20230
The language enigma: Two decades of quality assuring language assessment in South Africa0
Reinforcing or challenging stereotypes? Uncovering Africa’s image in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary0
Changing phases of linguistic ecology in Tanzania: The vitality of ethnic languages0
Exploring the readability of Sesotho Grade 12 examination texts using English readability metrics0
Unintentional insincerity in witnesses’ discourse strategies in the Malawian criminal justice system0
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach0
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues0
Eye Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research0
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert0
Phrase frames in rhetorical moves of economic research article discussions0
Yahooism to ritualism: Ideological motivations for cyber fraud in selected Yoruba films0
Tshebediso ya melao kabong ya dinoko tsa Sesotho0
Preserving indigenous minority languages through community radio in development programmes in Malawi0
What makes poetic language different? An experiment in genre recognition using word co-occurrence networks in Afrikaans0
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
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (5th edn)0
Premodifiers and a scarcity-productivity hypothesis in Yorùbá: Does the scarcity of adjectives influence productivity of the premodification slot?0
IsiXhosa as a preservative instrument of culture: A consideration of ethnolinguistics0
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency0
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration0
Afrikaans first language wh -question acquisition in low socio-economic status Grade 1 learners0
Rethinking literacy education in Kavango West0
Tšhomišo ya leleme la Sepedi dikgokaganyong tša leago: Tshekaseko ya Facebook le X0
Functional stylistic studies to pedagogic discourse: a systematic review of literature0
Diachronic change in lexical bundles in research article abstracts of applied linguistics0
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
A cross-cultural, cross-contextual study of interactional metadiscourse in academic research articles: An interpersonal approach0
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda0
Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation0
Are research articles becoming more syntactically complex? Corpus-based evidence from research articles in applied linguistics and biology (1965–2015)0
Gender and ethnic stereotypes in selected Nigerian sitcoms0
Translanguaging spaces as marketing strategies in the linguistic landscapes of Zambia0
An optimality-theoretic account of the acquisition of English tenses: The case of Moroccan EFL learners0
A move structure analysis of cover letters produced by South African students0
Uphenyo ngondabuzekwayo wesisho esithi, ‘Azikhale’ esiqhakanjiswe uNgizwe Mchunu nencazelo yaso0
‘Innie Malmesbuġy waa ôs bly’: Taalburgerskap, Arabies-Afrikaans, en die bry-r in Ashwin Arendse se Swatland0
Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities0
The semantics of Dagbani cut and break verbs0
Cultural and social construction of illness: The case of Basotho patients’ folk interpretations of their illness experiences0
Altyd ’n snaakse woordjie tussen-in : Nama click consonants in post-shift Namaqualand Afrikaans0
Body-part terms in the grammar of Igbo0
Investigating author impact in South African interpreting research0
Linguistic misconceptions of tautology in the English second language context among student educators0
Sonic stories, sensory ethnographies and immersive forensic storytelling in Travelling While Black0
Tlhaloso ya Setso ya Botsho, Bosweu, le Boputswa Sesothong0
The need to incorporate pragmatics instruction in Ethiopia: A qualitative review0
The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation0
Artist’s cognitive level and the style and form trails in graffiti: an analysis of graffiti from selected Bikita-Matsai secondary schools0
Expanding subtitles: An exploration into scaffolding and deepening educational content through subtitling0
The Ambiguity of English as a Lingua Franca: Politics of language and race in South Africa0
Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang0
An examination of the phonetic and phonological influence on stuttering in bilingual third-year students at the International University of Management0
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives0
Country stereotypes, perceptions and language attitudes: A moderated mediation analysis0
Teachers’ and principals’ perceptions of reading: Can they perpetuate inequalities in reading?0
Izinselelo eziphathelene nomsebenzi wabantu abangotolika emihlanganweni yokucobelelana ngolwazi0
Translanguaging and minoritised language revitalisation in multilingual classrooms: Examining teachers’ agency0
‘You call your teacher zombi ?’: Nicknaming of Tanzanian secondary school teachers0
The influence of British and American Englishes on Lesotho English0
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 t0
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in Introductions in medical research articles0
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa0
Die verband tussen kontekstuele en buitetekstuele faktore en verbruikers se omgang met gewone taal0
The impact of scaffolding and feedback practices on ESL collaborative writing performance0
Vocabulary size and comprehension of academic texts by Tanzanian university students: An exploratory study0
Source use in research articles in second language writing: A state-of-the-art review0
Translanguaging in assessments: perspectives on the strategies and implications for multilingual classrooms0
‘Votescapes’: Linguistic landscape and party language policy during the 2019 South African election0
Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions0
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin0
Sociolinguistic insights into Tshivenḓa epitaphs: Structure, euphemism, and cultural reflection0
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause0
Trends and sustainability of semantic rhetoric translation research: Insights from bibliometric analysis0
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English0
English relative clauses and the production difficulty facing native speakers of Kiswahili0
Guiding principles for the appraisal of English-teaching software0
Translating Insila kaShaka into English: literal or free translation in rendering idioms0
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers0
Connecting lexical bundles and moves in medical research articles’ Methods section0
Intlonipho izala uzinzo : Ukusetyenziswa kolwimi lokuhlonipha kwintlalo nenkcubeko yamaXhosa0
Developing EFL learners’ syntactic complexity in writing: The role of eTandem communication0
Informal features in English academic writing: Mismatch between prescriptive advice and actual practice0
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence0
A bibliometric study of metaphor research and its implications (2010–2020)0
Timing and effectiveness of media frames reporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria0
Perceptions of translanguaging pedagogy: A case of Grade 7 English First Additional Language (EFAL) learners in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province0
Typos in Addis Ababa: Analysis of typographical errors on posters and banners0
South African court interpreters’ perceptions of the phenomenon of interpreting0
Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions0
Family language policy in post-genocide Matabeleland: The case of a Ndebele family0
Single pract, multiple pragmemes: Constructing the dialectic of individual social contexts in a sample request–response adjacency0
Translanguaging in the classroom: a strategy for English First Additional Language learning0
World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language0
First language instruction? Eswatini teachers’ insight of the Eswatini language-in-education policy0
Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction: A Practical Guide0
Translanguaging pedagogy as seen through a critical literacy lens0
Describing the collocation feature in finite-predicator Sesotho personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach0
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions0
Semiotic modes accentuating learners’ metafunctions: The systemic functional approach to multimodal discourse analysis0
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools0
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence0
The connotative meaning of the Xhosa word umlungu before and during the democratic era0
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese0
Teaching EFL reading in Senegal: Current practices and recommendations0
Shujaa Okonkwo analysis from the perspective of Eco-Translatology0
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse0
New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics: Empirical and Methodological Challenges0
Language Policy in Action0
Iqhaza elibanjwa ukuxuba izilimi emakilasini anabafundi abamnyama abakhuluma izilimi ezehlukene emabangeni 10-12 esifundazweni iKwaZulu-Natali0
Mathata a bakwang ke ho se ngole puo ya Sesotho ka nepo marangrang a Setjhaba0
A sociolinguistic analysis of gratitude expressions in Tshivenḓa0
Reflections on vowel lowering and raising in Malawian CiTonga (N.15)0
Sesotho control verbs with the reflexive prefix: A morpho-syntactic analysis0
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