8 articles in this issue
Ethelbert Emmanuel Kari
This paper presents an overview of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Central Delta languages. It also provides information on the geo-linguistic, demographic and sociolinguistic situation of these languages. It notes that Central Delta languages hav... see more
Anneke Perold Potgieter
Whilst literature on the acquisition of passive constructions by speakers of European languages abounds, there is a dearth of grammatical descriptions of passive constructions in (especially South) African languages that may serve as a basis for acquisiti... see more
Stefanie Dose
The directionality debate in interpreting revolves around the question of whether and how (simultaneous) interpreters’ performance differs when working from a second and into a first language compared to interpreting from a first and into a second languag... see more
Ruth Scheepers
This article describes a corpus-linguistic investigation of undergraduates’ production of delexical multiword units (MWUs) comprising high-frequency verb + noun combinations. The aim was to shed more light on the difficulties these deceptively simple comb... see more
Suren Naicker
This article investigates the use of metaphorical language in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda is one of the most important modern-day Hindu scholars, and his interpretation of the ancient Hindu scriptural lore has been very influentia... see more
Trish Cooper
An aspect of vocabulary research that tends to be somewhat neglected is that based on qualitative investigation. While a number of studies have considered the differences in vocabulary size between first-language (L1) and additional language (AL) speakers... see more
Deogratias Nizonkiza
This study explores the effect of teaching collocations on building academic vocabulary and hence improving academic writing abilities. A pre-/post-test experimental design was used to analyse collocations produced in two tasks completed by the study’s pa... see more
Eleanor Cornelius,Marné Pienaar
Although much research is currently undertaken on interpreting in South Africa, the profession and academic discourse lack standardised interpreting terminology, especially in the indigenous languages. One possible reason for this relates to the unique So... see more