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(Re)considering Haugen’s model in the teaching and learning of standard Kiswahili in Uganda （Re）考虑Haugen在乌干达标准斯瓦希里语教学中的模式

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094084

Caesar Jjingo, Zainab Ali Iddi

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Language visibility in the public space: the linguistic landscape of Masvingo, Zimbabwe 公共空间中的语言可见性:津巴布韦马斯温戈的语言景观

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094085

Vincent Jenjekwa

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Linguistic strategies used by the Ministry of Health and Childcare in Zimbabwe to sensitise citizens on COVID-19 津巴布韦卫生和儿童保育部为提高公民对新冠肺炎的认识而使用的语言策略

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094058

L. Mutonga, Kudzai Gotosa, Victor Mugari

{"title":"Linguistic strategies used by the Ministry of Health and Childcare in Zimbabwe to sensitise citizens on COVID-19","authors":"L. Mutonga, Kudzai Gotosa, Victor Mugari","doi":"10.1080/02572117.2022.2094058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2094058","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the use of Shona and English in COVID-19 pandemic adverts by the Ministry of Health and Child Care in Zimbabwe. Specifically, the research establishes and explains the significance of linguistic strategies which were used by the Ministry of Health and Child Care when disseminating information to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, spread and management in the print media. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that language use in this context is an act of cognitive manipulation where the reader is strategically coerced to take up the message. The study is a qualitative research enterprise and it used document analysis as the method of data collection. Data is analysed using Discourse Analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. The study established that the Ministry of Health and Child Care employed metaphors, slang, code switching, interrogatives, translation and borrowing to guide interpretation and conceptualisation of information in their adverts. The study concludes that by using these devices, the ministry exploits shared knowledge and then appeals to cognition through interrogatives to subtly garner support, manipulate opinion and manufacture compliance through the adverts.","PeriodicalId":42604,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of African Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-linguistic issues in the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese negation by Shona–English bilinguals at the University of Zimbabwe: implications for second language teaching 津巴布韦大学绍英双语者汉语否定习得中的跨语言问题:对第二语言教学的启示

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094074

Achieford Mhondera, Tendai Mutepfa

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Is Khelobedu a language or a dialect? Khelobedu是一种语言还是一种方言?

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094049

T. Rakgogo, I. P. Mandende

{"title":"Is Khelobedu a language or a dialect?","authors":"T. Rakgogo, I. P. Mandende","doi":"10.1080/02572117.2022.2094049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2094049","url":null,"abstract":"The primary aim of this article is to investigate whether Khelobedu should be considered a language in its own right or whether it has correctly been classified as one of the dialects of Sepedi, referred to in Section 6(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, as Sepedi, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The article was initiated by a dialectal controversy surrounding the politics of dialects and languages in South Africa. Dialectology as a conceptual framework was considered as the body of theory that guides this article and buttresses the authors’ point of view. The article is purely qualitative in nature and employed content analysis supplemented by focus group interviews with members of the Modjadji Traditional Council and face-to-face interviews with 20 university students who ethnically identified themselves as Balobedu. Participants for the article were purposively selected based on their proficiency and knowledge about the researched phenomenon as articulated by Creswell and Creswell. Based on lexical dissimilarities realised between Khelobedu and Sepedi, the article concludes that Khelobedu is not a dialect, but a language on its own. The findings reveal that the decision to classify Khelobedu as a dialect of Sepedi was meant to accommodate the administrative system of the apartheid regime, being a purely political exercise which lacked transparency, consultation and a linguistic justification. It is further found that decisions about whether speech forms constitute an independent language or a dialect are based on language ideology and not on linguistic criteria.","PeriodicalId":42604,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of African Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41902113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When prepositions and adverbs become nouns and locatives in Xitsonga 当介词和副词在西松嘎语中变成名词和位置时

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094082

S. J. Kubayi

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Nickname creation through shortening Setswana personal names 通过缩短塞茨瓦纳人名创建昵称

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094052

Thapelo J Otlogetswe, Goabilwe N Ramaeba

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Imicabango yababhali base-Afrika ngempumelelo yabesifazane: kuhlaziywa inoveli kaJabulani Mngadi ethi Usumenyezelwe-ke Umcebo 非洲作家对妇女成功的看法：人们承认资源已经到位

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094054

Vusumuzi J Nkosi, N. Zondi

{"title":"Imicabango yababhali base-Afrika ngempumelelo yabesifazane: kuhlaziywa inoveli kaJabulani Mngadi ethi Usumenyezelwe-ke Umcebo","authors":"Vusumuzi J Nkosi, N. Zondi","doi":"10.1080/02572117.2022.2094054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2094054","url":null,"abstract":"Imibono evezwe kule atikeli igxile enovelini yesiZulu, Usumenyezelwe-ke Umcebo eyabhalwa nguJabulani Mngadi ongomunye wababhali abahloniswayo kwezobuciko besiZulu. Ithuluzi lokucwaninga elibizwa ngokuthi yiStatus Incongruity Hypothesis yilona elisetshenziselwe ukuveza imizwa yababhali mayelana nempumelelo eyaziwa ngokuthi ingeyabesifazane emisebenzini yobuciko. Inoveli kaMngadi ikuveza kucace ukuthi amasiko abomdabu base Afrika awayeseki neze impumelelo yabantu besifazane. Le atikeli ihlose ukwedlulisela umzabalazo wabantu besifazane enkundleni yamasiko nalokho akulindele kubo. Okutholiwe ekucwaningeni wukuthi: (1) eNtshonalanga impumelelo yomuntu wesifazane ithathwa njengeyakhe yena siqu, kanti emiphakathini yabomdabu base Afrika impumelelo yomuntu wesifazane ayithathwa neze njengeyakhe uqobo kodwa njengeyalowo muntu wesilisa omphethe; (2) emiphakathini eminingi emhlabeni impumelelo yomuntu wesifazane ivele inekelwe izwe nje kungabe kusanakwa nokuphepha kwakhe, okukugcina wukuthi (3) emiphakathini yabomdabu yase Afrika umuntu wesifazane oyisihlabani uyajeziswa ngabantu besilisa nabanye abantu besifazane. Atikeli ivumbulule ukuthi kukhona isikhala esikhona ezifundweni zeFeminism ngaphansi kwalesi sihloko sayo nokuthi lesi sikhala singavalwa ngokuthi kusetshenziswe iStatus Incongruity Hypothesis ukuphenya imisebenzi yobuciko besiZulu efana namanoveli, amadrama, izindatshana nezinkondlo.","PeriodicalId":42604,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of African Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42197643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Stylistic elements in the praise poetry of Chief Adolphus Munamuna, ọụbẹbẹ kẹnị Ịjọ ibe (the chief oral poet of the Ịjọ nation) 阿道夫·穆纳穆纳赞美诗中的文体元素，ọụbẹbẹ kẹnị Ịjọ 伊贝Ịjọ 国家）

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094089

Imomotimi Armstrong

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Theory of ethnicity and its utility in understanding the basis of cultural homogeneity of African societies: the case of Sotho groups 种族理论及其在理解非洲社会文化同质性基础上的效用:以索托群体为例

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South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094063

Thato Mabolaeng Monyakane

{"title":"Theory of ethnicity and its utility in understanding the basis of cultural homogeneity of African societies: the case of Sotho groups","authors":"Thato Mabolaeng Monyakane","doi":"10.1080/02572117.2022.2094063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2022.2094063","url":null,"abstract":"The Basotho, Batswana and Bapedi are found in many parts of southern Africa and appear as dissimilar groups that do not have a common heritage or any shared links. The Batswana are from the North West province in South Africa and Botswana; the Bapedi from the Northern provinces of South Africa and the Basotho from Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. However, they are classified as belonging to one Sotho group in the literature of heritage studies. Matšela and Moletsane declare that the Sotho people are related, indicating similar cultural roots and origin. The central focus of this article is to analyse the abovementioned scholars’ view in explaining the Sotho. They allude to the extensive writings of Gellner and Smith about the similarity of a people. The purpose of the study is to place Gellner and Smith’s theories as central in African languages. Although these theories originate in international relations, their argument is that oral literature (stories, proverbs, songs) seeks to indicate a common heritage across groups of people. The study seeks to expand the potential of Matšela and Moletsane’s views in explaining similar people in African languages.","PeriodicalId":42604,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of African Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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