Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2288336
Mlamli Diko
Yolisa Madolo’s Ndinetyala kusini na? (‘Am I guilty?’) proves the notion that isiXhosa short stories could be viewed as making sociopolitical commentary on pertinent subjects such as natural creati...
Yolisa Madolo 的作品《Ndinetyala kusini na?(我有罪吗?")证明了一个观点,即伊西科萨短篇小说可以被视为对自然创造等相关主题的社会政治评论。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2325836
Mashadi Masha-Sambo, Tilla Olifant, Mzwamadoda Phillip Cekiso, Thabo Ditsele
IsiZulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, and most of its home language (HL) speakers reside in KwaZulu-Natal. Outside this province, there are significant isiZulu HL speakers who...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322246
Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi
The aim of this article is to investigate how South African hip-hop lyrics break language rules and promote South African indigenous languages. The article focuses on youth participation in linguis...
本文旨在研究南非嘻哈歌词如何打破语言规则,推广南非土著语言。文章的重点是青年参与语言活动的情况。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322274
Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau
This article explores various political euphemisms in Tshivenḓa that politicians deploy in daily social interactions. Politicians use political euphemisms strategically to control the flow of infor...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322304
Imomotimi Armstrong
This article focuses on the emergence of praise-poetry recitation among the Ịjọ of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. It argues that until the contemporary period, the Ịjọ had no such poetic form. The a...
本文重点介绍尼日利亚尼日尔河三角洲地区的 "the remejọ "人中出现的赞美诗朗诵。文章认为,直到当代,"the economicjọ "人还没有这种诗歌形式。这种诗歌形式...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322320
Chimaobi Onwukwe
This study reflects on language use and identity navigation in the context of xenophobia. It specifically examines language practices by Nigerian Igbo immigrants as they relate to negotiating socia...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322306
Naledi N Kgolo-Lotshwao, Thapelo J Otlogetswe
This study experimentally tested how well Setswana native speakers know numbers in their language, and whether they can articulate numbers of varying complexities in Setswana. To this end, we prese...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-10DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2024.2322316
Sol Chaphole, Madira Thetso
This article aims to understand Khaketla’s intent in naming the characters in Mosali a Nkhola. As one of its key features, a novel has characters whose main purpose is to carry readers through the ...
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This article seeks to question the lexical integrity (lexicality) of isiZulu noun classes. A noun is a lexical category, hence it would be expected that a noun classifier be a lexical or derivation...
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