Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2288885
Melvin Ouma, Furaha Chai
Communication is a crucial tool in all forms of interaction. The medical world without communication is inconceivable. Guided by Austin’s speech act theory, this work explores how doctors relay bad...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2024.2321903
Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau
Direct reference to death has long been taboo in Tshivenḓa culture, and it is sanctioned by social, psychological and religious constraints. Like in other African societies, explicit reference to d...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2288882
Gabriel Lesetsa Babili
Section 6(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa serves as the material cornerstone for promoting the equitable use of all official languages in government departments. This right, ...
南非共和国宪法》第 6(2)条是促进政府部门公平使用所有官方语言的物质基石。这项权利,...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-06DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2273272
Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini
There seems to be no study so far that has interpreted isocolon from a descriptive linguistic point of view. Studies conducted on isocolon have considered this aspect as merely a poetic tool and ha...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2252011
Robyn Berghoff, Michelle Jennifer White
Cognitive control (CC) affects the ability to revise an incorrect parse. It has been shown to be implicated in detecting and resolving conflicts between semantic and syntactic cues during sentence ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2254339
Mampoi Irene Mabena
Published in Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《南部非洲语言学与应用语言研究》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2257744
Thama Mudau, Martha L. Kabinde-Machate, Itani P. Mandende
Adoption of a multilingual educational system in South Africa necessitates translation services, as the diverse official languages that are spoken in South Africa and their attendant cultures rarel...
在南非采用多语言教育系统需要翻译服务,因为南非的官方语言多种多样,随之而来的文化也各不相同。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2260836
Yanga L. P. Majola, Papi Lemeko
Names are important in our daily lives. They are not just labels used for the owners, but have cultural and traditional connotations in the African context. Names are used to identify their bearers...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2262524
Mlamli Diko
While semantic and pragmatic deconstruction has conventionally been nested in general linguistics, contemporary theoretical developments have proven that it can further be applied in the examinatio...
虽然语义和语用解构在传统上被归入普通语言学,但当代的理论发展证明,它可以进一步应用于对语言的研究。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2023.2229386
Napjadi Letsoalo
This article examines some linguistic features of Sepedi proverbs. The aim is to shed light on how toxic masculinity is manifested in proverbs and to contribute to the emerging research on masculin...
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