Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Perception and Metaphor: A Comparative Perspective Between English and Chinese10
Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring8
Assessing the effect of duration of exposure to academic writing on university students in the use of conjunctive cohesive devices in academic writing: A case study at Mkwawa University College of Edu6
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar5
Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences5
Language regulation in post-independence Zimbabwe (1981–2015) and Kalanga linguistic citizenship4
Establishing a research territory in economics: Implications for academic writing instruction4
Vocabulary knowledge and academic achievement revisited: General and academic vocabulary as determinant factors4
Motion events in Changana spoken narrative3
Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony3
Chemical phonology: Relating phonemes and elements of the chemistry periodic table3
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English3
A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: the case of the University of Dar es Salaam3
Metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba discursive interactions3
The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa3
The metamorphoses in the exposition of certain isiXhosa words3
Using bundle analysis to uncover formulaic language patterns in seminar discussions2
Structures and functions of lexical bundles in FinTech discourse2
Complex variability and difficulty processing Yoruba relativisers and the relative clause2
Discursive construction of ethnicity in the herdsmen and farmers discourse2
Application of teachers’ philosophies on literacy teaching and learning in rural schools2
Translation and translators in the eyes of literary reviewers: A content analysis of book reviews of literary works translated into English2
Discursive strategies of framing in Nigerian and South African headlines on xenophobic violence2
The open court principle in Zimbabwe: A language rights perspective2
Sociocultural narratives and the anthropomorphic power of agency in a semiotic landscape2
Stance-taking across monologic and dialogic modes of academic speech2
Phrase frames in rhetorical moves of economic research article discussions2
Register competence in academic writing of student teachers specialising in English didactics at the University of Venda2
Linguistic misconceptions of tautology in the English second language context among student educators2
Sesotho ideophones as personal names: A systemic functional linguistics approach2
Death euphemisms on tombstones: A case of the Vhavenḓa’s metaphorical conceptualisation of death1
Articles in Zimbabwean English: A corpus-based analysis1
Sesotho figurative language: Ineffective conversational strategy in commissions of enquiry1
Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades1
Stigmatisation through metaphors borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press1
Co-text and critical reading for international postgraduates in Australia1
A comparative study of National Senior Certificate summative assessments of poetry for four South African official languages at Home Language proficiency1
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics1
A morpho-semantic approach to social networking neologisms in ‘modern’ Tshivenḓa usage1
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria1
Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes1
Licence to leave: the 'had-to' device as a method for producing normative accounts of migration1
Quality assessment of translated isiXhosa public texts1
Unintentional insincerity in witnesses’ discourse strategies in the Malawian criminal justice system1
The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of pragmatics pedagogy in EFL/L2: meta-analysis review1
Assessment of vocabulary in First Additional Languages: A focus on Siswati Grade 12 examination papers1
Assessing EFL learners’ written performance: The case of task repetition1
Idea generation and planning time in second language academic writing: An empirical investigation at Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa1
A colonial depiction of human-nature relationships in Johann Krönlein’s Wortschatz der Khoikhoin1
Handling bad news in a male reproductive health clinic: a speech act perspective1
Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis ApproachDiscourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach1
A corpus-driven analysis of phrase frames in research articles on business management1
Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence1
Language attitudes research: a classification of methodological issues1
Wetin una dey yan: Variation in the use of copuladeyin Nigerian Pidgin English1
Imiba edinga ukuthathelwa ingqalelo kuguqulelo loncwadi lwabantwana1
Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction1
Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria1
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