Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2356551
Foluke Unuabonah, Mampoi Mabena
This paper explores five borrowed discourse-pragmatic features—wena, mna/mina, yazi, phela, and ke—which are transferred from indigenous South African languages into South African English, with the...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2347364
Temidayo Akinrinlola, Adesina Sunday
This article reports Obiageli Ezekwesili’s voices on the #BringBackOurGirls protest. Fusing Du Bois’s stance theory and Ochs’s theory of context as theoretical model, this study articulates Ezekwes...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2366797
Liziwe Futuse, Tessa Dowling
The contemporary proliferation of borrowed words in Xhosa must be seen as part of a historical process of borrowing, each stage in the process representing a particular orthographic development and...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2348664
Josephiter Mutagwaba, Ulrike Jessner
The article investigates early multilingualism in Tanzanian primary schools, focusing on teachers’ perceptions of bilingual/multilingual education. It highlights Tanzania’s rich linguistic diversit...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2336446
Rajend Mesthrie
Published in Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《语言问题》：非洲语言研究》（2024 年，提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2345340
David Lasagabaster, Christa van der Walt
South Africa is well-known for the implementation of multilingual language policies at various educational levels which are upheld by its Constitution. Higher education institutions in the country ...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2290257
Reviewed by Chen Liu, Liza Ali
Published in Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
发表于《语言问题》：非洲语言研究》（第 54 卷，第 3 期，2023 年）
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2289732
Gabriel Babili, Isaac Mndawe
There has recently been a significant amount of interest in the study of police written discourse, particularly in the areas of monolingualism, warnings, and identifying deception. This article dra...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2282445
Katherine Steinke, Kellie Steinke
Keeping in mind the recent COVID-19 pandemic, this paper builds on a study that examined how a major twentieth century South African newspaper utilised outbreaks of bubonic plague to propagate raci...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2282444
Medadi Ssentanda, Gibson Ncube
This article examines the linguistic landscape of Kampala (Uganda) by analysing the language dynamics that play out through shop signs. Engaging with data collected through photographs and intervie...
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