{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Theodorus du Plessis","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2021.2009632","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This thirteenth special issue of Language Matters on language politics in Africa again has a strong focus on language-in-education policy. Three of the articles deal with aspects of language policy implementation and challenges in education in two southern African settings, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Particularly noteworthy is their focus on indigenous and minoritised languages in education and on some of the challenges regarding multilingual education. Two further articles are broadly situated in a health context, the one dealing with the development of a screening test used in healthcare facilities in South Africa and the other investigating metaphors found in newspaper coverage of HIV and AIDS issues in Lesotho. A final article deals with public access to, involvement in, and the right to petition Parliament in Zimbabwe.","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"52 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Matters","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2021.2009632","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This thirteenth special issue of Language Matters on language politics in Africa again has a strong focus on language-in-education policy. Three of the articles deal with aspects of language policy implementation and challenges in education in two southern African settings, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Particularly noteworthy is their focus on indigenous and minoritised languages in education and on some of the challenges regarding multilingual education. Two further articles are broadly situated in a health context, the one dealing with the development of a screening test used in healthcare facilities in South Africa and the other investigating metaphors found in newspaper coverage of HIV and AIDS issues in Lesotho. A final article deals with public access to, involvement in, and the right to petition Parliament in Zimbabwe.
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The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.
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