{"title":"Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective","authors":"Melvin Ouma, Furaha Chai","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2288885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2288885","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254586","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}
{"title":"Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death","authors":"Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2024.2321903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2024.2321903","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"53 99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254587","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}
{"title":"Police interviews in a non-native context: Misconstructions and possible solutions","authors":"Gabriel Lesetsa Babili","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2288882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2288882","url":null,"abstract":"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, ...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933575","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}
{"title":"Isocolon in EDM Sibiya’s novels: A stylo-syntactic evaluation","authors":"Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2273272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2273272","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140939242","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}
{"title":"Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities","authors":"Robyn Berghoff, Michelle Jennifer White","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2252011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2252011","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147463","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}
{"title":"Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert","authors":"Mampoi Irene Mabena","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2254339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2254339","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147096","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}
Thama Mudau, Martha L. Kabinde-Machate, Itani P. Mandende
{"title":"Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts","authors":"Thama Mudau, Martha L. Kabinde-Machate, Itani P. Mandende","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2257744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2257744","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147178","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}
{"title":"The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa","authors":"Yanga L. P. Majola, Papi Lemeko","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2260836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2260836","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147100","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}
{"title":"A semantic-pragmatic deconstruction of Blinding Lights by The Weeknd and Bad Guy by Billie Eilish","authors":"Mlamli Diko","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2262524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2262524","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147095","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}
{"title":"Toxicity in gendered Sepedi proverbs: A textual analysis","authors":"Napjadi Letsoalo","doi":"10.2989/16073614.2023.2229386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2229386","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":54152,"journal":{"name":"Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147102","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}