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Sociolinguistics and modes of social class signalling: African perspectives
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The paper evaluates spatial, behavioural, and material signal-ling of social class in African contexts, focusing on Kenya and Zambia. In particular, it draws on notions of mode of class signalling and intersectionality and ...
Translating conceptual qur’anic metaphor: A cogno-translational approach
(Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2021)
This study will investigate metaphor translation as a natural phenomenon. It will analyze some of the problems involving the translation of metaphorical expressions in two Qur’anic translations, namely, Yusuf Ali's The ...
Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism
(King's College, 2021)
This paper is a radical break with a view of multilingualism as an arrangement or hierarchy of different languages which produces more or less visibility for these named varieties. Rather, it takes as its starting point a ...
Towards a technology-enhanced blended approach for teaching Arabic for Shari’ah purposes (ASP) in the light of the South African national qualifications framework
(International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2021)
The study investigates the use of a blended
learning approach for teaching Arabic as a foreign language at
a South African Islamic college in the light of the South African
National Qualifications Framework level ...
Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(UNICAMP, 2020)
These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of
colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of
a rampant global neoliberal and ...
The conceptual evolution in Linguistics implications for the study of Kaaps
(University of the Westen Cape, 2020)
zaAbstractAs an academic discipline, Linguistics - the scientific study of language - is associated with a range of concepts. Students of Linguistics are traditionally introduced to these concepts in their first year of ...
Voicing sentiments of resilience: A corpus approach to 1980s conscious rappers in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2021)
The study of people’s response to adversity acquires substantially different connotations in
the South African context because of the heavy legacy of apartheid. This article explores the
construction of the notion of ...
Language ideology, policy and classroom practices in Oshiwambo speaking areas, Northern Namibia
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The study problematized language ideologies and policy to explore the efficacy of using English as the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) among Oshiwambo speaking learners in the Omusati region of Northern ...
Multilingualism as racialization
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
South African today remains a nation torn by violence and racial inequity. One of major challenges for its people is to create new futures across historically constituted racial divides, by finding ways ...
“The Gwarrie Call that they Recognise”: An analysis of the translated Sesotho poem “Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914” (War against Germany 1914) by BM Khaketla (1913–2001)
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
This essay looks at a recently translated poem, “Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914”, written by BM Khaketla, as a lens through which to approach the feelings and attitudes of people from Lesotho towards the world wars. A poem is ...