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The ‘rise and fall’ of a genre: The generic and rhetorical renditions of a Runyankore-Rukiga editorial
This article explores the discursive practice of editorial writing in Runyankore-Rukiga print media. It also explicates the generic structure of …
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Sensationalism in argumentation: A case of the Zimbabwean parliament debates
Parliamentary debates are an argumentative interaction in which Members of Parliament (MPs) employ varied language devices in order to win …
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Participation and decision-making at community development meetings: An appraisal of a subtle style in Luganda
This paper is based on corpus data from a study that was conducted in Uganda by the Center for Research …
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Anticausatives with passives of subordinate intransitive clauses in Xitsonga
Literature shows that anticausatives have been well investigated in European languages such as English, German, and Greek. However, this is …
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The associative copulative and expression of bodily discomfort in Northern Sotho
This article discusses one of the meanings expressed by the associative copulative construction with -na le, ‘have’ in Northern Sotho, …
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Manifestation of kubanga causal connectives in English-Luganda bilingual discourse
This article presents an overview of the Luganda causal marker kubanga (because) as it occurs in a bilingual Luganda-English spoken …
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The curse of poverty and marginalisation in language development: The case of Khoisan languages of Botswana
Khoisan languages are spoken by tiny and remote-dwelling communities of Botswana, the members of which are characterised by socio-economic hardships …
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Using African languages at universities in South Africa: The struggle continues
Both the advent of democracy in 1994 and the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in …
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From physical to online spaces in the age of the #FeesMustFall protests: A Critical Interpretative Synthesis of writing centres in emergency situations
Writing centres play a vital role in guiding students in their academic writing. Central to this role is their physical …
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Aiming beyond the written, to the writer and writing: The writing consultation as a mentoring process for life-long writing
This article critically reflects on how writing centres can address the notion that their primary role is to deal with …
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Space, place, and power in South African writing centres: Special issue in honour of Sharifa Daniels
A writing center cannot define itself as a space—we’re often kicked out of our spaces. It’s not a pedagogy. We’re …
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Negotiating new ways of developing writing in disciplinary spaces: The changing role of writing consultants at the Wits School of Education Writing Centre
Writing centres in South African universities have historically been poorly recognised structures in higher education, and have largely been considered …
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Writing within simultaneity: A reflective progress report through letters from the Wits Writing Programme
Listening has long been understood as characteristic of writing centre practice, and as central to writing centre philosophy. This reflective …
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Writing centre consultants as critical friends
“Critical friend” is a term widely used in professional development, teacher education, and evaluation contexts. It is defined by Costa …
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Writing centres as dialogic spaces: Negotiating conflicting discourses around citation and plagiarism
Citation is fundamental in successfully constructing academic discourse. There has been much discussion concerning the considerable difficulties tertiary students experience …
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Exploring the gap between what we say and what we do: Writing centres, ‘safety’, and ‘risk’ in higher education
Writing centres are a well-established aspect of student academic support in many universities around the world. As much as there …
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Validating the performance standards set for language assessments of academic readiness: The case of Stellenbosch University
Twenty-five years into the post-apartheid period, South African universities still struggle to produce the number of graduates required for the …
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Extended exponence in isiNdebele morphology
This article discusses extended exponence and headedness in the context of isiNdebele morphology. An attempt will be made to distinguish …
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China Town as a multilingual workplace
Since the emergence of China within the BRIC[1]-group in 2001 (BRICS as from 2010), people of Chinese origin have gradually …
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An analysis of metaphorical idioms in South African Indian English
This study looks at a selected number of expressions used in the variety of English known as “South African Indian …
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