Language MattersPub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2356551
Foluke Unuabonah, Mampoi Mabena
{"title":"Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English","authors":"Foluke Unuabonah, Mampoi Mabena","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2356551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2356551","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2347364
Temidayo Akinrinlola, Adesina Sunday
{"title":"Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest","authors":"Temidayo Akinrinlola, Adesina Sunday","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2347364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2347364","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2366797
Liziwe Futuse, Tessa Dowling
{"title":"Some Missionary-Influenced Early Borrowed Words and Names in Xhosa","authors":"Liziwe Futuse, Tessa Dowling","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2366797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2366797","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2348664
Josephiter Mutagwaba, Ulrike Jessner
{"title":"Early Multilingualism and Bi/Multilingual Education in Tanzanian Primary Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions","authors":"Josephiter Mutagwaba, Ulrike Jessner","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2348664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2348664","url":null,"abstract":"The article investigates early multilingualism in Tanzanian primary schools, focusing on teachers’ perceptions of bilingual/multilingual education. It highlights Tanzania’s rich linguistic diversit...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141946238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2336446
Rajend Mesthrie
{"title":"World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language, by Bertus van Rooy","authors":"Rajend Mesthrie","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2336446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2336446","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2024.2345340
David Lasagabaster, Christa van der Walt
{"title":"Students’ Perceived Language Competence and Attitudes Towards Multilingualism at a South African University","authors":"David Lasagabaster, Christa van der Walt","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2024.2345340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2024.2345340","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141722170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2290257
Reviewed by Chen Liu, Liza Ali
{"title":"Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power, edited by Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, and Cristine Severo","authors":"Reviewed by Chen Liu, Liza Ali","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2023.2290257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2290257","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138688438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2289732
Gabriel Babili, Isaac Mndawe
{"title":"Police Written Discourse: Analysing Notable Glitches in Police Reports","authors":"Gabriel Babili, Isaac Mndawe","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2023.2289732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2289732","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138688723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2282445
Katherine Steinke, Kellie Steinke
{"title":"Back to the Future: Uncovering Deeper Meanings in Historical Newspaper Texts","authors":"Katherine Steinke, Kellie Steinke","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2023.2282445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2282445","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language MattersPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2023.2282444
Medadi Ssentanda, Gibson Ncube
{"title":"Scripting Identities: Reading Language Dynamics and Ideologies on Shop Signs in Kampala","authors":"Medadi Ssentanda, Gibson Ncube","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2023.2282444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2282444","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"4 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}