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AUTHOR
Sambulo Ndlovu
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Attributional and relational influence of numerals in S’ncamtho metaphors
2020
AbstractYouth varieties in Africa such as S’ncamtho, the Ndebele-based youth variety in Zimbabwe, and urban vernaculars interact with urban and modern experiences which offer them new materials and experiences to base their metaphors on compared to older metaphors in the base languages. This paper explores the use of numeral qualities and associations in the conceptualisation and orthographic representation of S’ncamtho metaphors. S’ncamtho is popular with urban youth and this makes social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS and Instagram key in the performance of the youth variety, a performance that includes the creation, use and contraction of metaphors. Numerals off…
Juxtaposing Zulu and Zimbabwean Ndebele lexico-semantic differences: an etymological and shibboleth analysis
2020
Zulu spoken in South Africa and Northern Ndebele spoken in Zimbabwe are Nguni languages that are particularly close to each other, Zulu is arguably closer to Zimbabwean Ndebele compared to other Ng...
Decolonisation of the Zimbabwean linguistic landscape through renaming: a quantitative and linguistic landscaping analysis
2021
The language question is topical in Africa because of colonial hegemonies by colonial and languages of global communication such as English, French, and Portuguese. English hegemony in dominant dom...