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  • Geskiedenis van die Sepediskryfwyse 
    Esterhuyse, C.J.; Groenewald, P.S. (Pieter Schalk) (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)
    The development of Sepedi as a written language extends over a period of 100 years, from 1870 to 1967 when the current orthography was finalised. The missionaries, who were to put Sepedi to writing, were members of the ...
  • 'n Kritiese analise van terminologiebestuur binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks 
    Goosen, Michelle (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-11)
    Hierdie studie gee rekenskap van die vernaamste Suid-Afrikaanse terminologiebestuursprogramme. Spesifieke aandag word gegee aan die beskikbaarheid / toeganklikheid van hierdie programme se terminologiese hulpbronne vir ...
  • Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani? : a corpus linguistics approach 
    Mncwango, Lungile; Van Niekerk, Jacomien (Jacomina); Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
    In this article, we use corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine gender stereotyping in three isiZulu novels, namely Indlela yababi (‘The path of the wicked’) by RRR Dhlomo, Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu ...
  • Pego ye e beakantswego ya nyakisiso ya Makxothlo (Lekgothoane) 
    Mojalefa, Mawatle Jeremiah (University of Pretoria, 1995)
    Although Lekgothoane's collection of traditional praise poems as well as those of Phala and Ramaila appeared in the late 1930's, these works have never been thoroughly investigated and described. As a result, Lekgothoane ...
  • Consumptive and non-consumptive uses of water beetles (Aquatic coleopterans) in sub-Saharan traditional rituals 
    Mnisi, Lucky Nhlanhla; Zondi, Nompumelelo B.; Pikirayi, Innocent (MDPI, 2023-09)
    The use of wild animals in customary rituals and as a sustenance resource is a longstanding tradition within sub-Saharan Africa. The emergence of commercial trade, has, however, created unattainable demands and has led ...
  • Subtitling, semiotics and spirited away 
    Sanders, Lisa (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, 2022-03)
    When translating a film according to typical subtitling models, the focus is usually solely on the dialogue of the film. Furthermore, the resulting translations are often impoverished to a large extent due to the constraints ...
  • Umthelela womdonsiswano wemibono ngobulili obuhlukene kubabhali besizulu abasebasha (contemporary gender discourse and its implications for Zulu emerging writers) 
    Makhiwane, Nombulelo Precious (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-28)
    Imiphakathi ephila ngokwamasiko isaphika ukuthi ubudlelwano babantu bezothando obuhlukile kulobu obujwayelekile ngokobulili buyimvelo. Ukubulawa okulokhu kuqhubekile kwamalunga omphakathi we-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, ...
  • The future of metalexicography : reaching for the mesosphere 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Bureau of the WAT, 2023-06)
    In this research article, a quantified look is taken at the metalexicographic endeavours of the past half century, starting in 1971. It is argued that the year 2021 represents a tipping point, and for that reason, when ...
  • Generative AI and lexicography : the current state of the art using ChatGPT 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Oxford University Press, 2023-12)
    In this article, all ten papers and talks that have been devoted to the use of ChatGPT in lexicography so far are critically analysed, their results tabulated and cross-compared, from which the leading trends are determined. ...
  • Optical character recognition and text cleaning in the indigenous South African languages 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Goosen, Michelle (Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2022)
    This article represents follow-up work on unpublished presentations by the authors of text and corpus cleaning strategies for the African languages. In this article we provide a comparative description of cleaning of ...
  • Male perpetrators of violence against women in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon 
    Haskins, Susan L. (Classical Association of South Africa, 2022)
    No study of violence against women in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon has yet focussed on the male perpetrators of that violence. I contend that the novel depicts male perpetrators as failing to live up to the ...
  • The implications of Setswana hare folktales contemporary for South African children 
    Boya, Thapelo Bernard (University of Pretoria, 2023)
    In previous research, it has been stated that folktales are primarily told to teach moral lessons to children. However, this study demonstrates that Setswana hare folktales potentially teach the opposite of the intended ...
  • Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)
    This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof­-of-­concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic ...
  • Metalexicography : an existential crisis 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)
    While there was arguably a need for multi-authored, multi-volume, metalexicographic handbooks three decades ago – when the field of metalexicography was still ‘young’ – it is a bit puzzling to make sense of the current ...
  • Reduplication in Lusoga 
    Marlo, Michael R.; Nabirye, Minah; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Peeters Online Journals, 2022)
    This paper provides an in‑depth description of reduplication of verbs, nouns, and other word categories in Lusoga, drawing on introspected and elicited data, along with data from dictionaries and corpus texts, as well as ...
  • Cultural adaptation and Northern Sotho translation of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers 
    Vorster, Carlien; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Lekganyane, Matemane; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Van der Linde, Jeannie (AOSIS, 2022-01-13)
    BACKGROUND : In recent reviews of autism spectrum disorder screening tools, the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-CHAT-R/FTM) has been recommended for use in lower middle-income countries ...
  • Gender inequality in South African Nguni cultures, as portrayed in selected Nguni literary text. 
    Memela, Mbalenhle Melodious (University of Pretoria, 2022)
    This research seeks to highlight the gender inequality brought by some of the rituals and traditions practised by South African Nguni cultures. It seeks to work as a mediator or a mouth for the parties that are being treated ...
  • Critical analysis of issues that depict gender inequality and conflict between human rights and culture in Isiko Nelungelo and Intando Kamufi 
    Mathe, Siyabonga Muziwandile Gift (University of Pretoria, 2022)
    ABSTRACT South Africa has a diverse range of languages, races, religions, and ethnic communities. It has faced significant challenges – political, cultural, and socio-economic – since the arrival of democracy in 1994. ...
  • ‘Go beka’: Legato le bohlokwa la lenyalo la setšo 
    Sefoka, Moipone Magdalina; Mojalefa, Mawatle Jeremiah (Jerry) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
    Nepokgolo ya nyakišišo ye ke go tsinkela lenyalo la setšo sa Bapedi go hlokometšwe kudu setšhaba sa ba Matlala ba tikologo ya Moutse. Go bile le dinyakišišo tšeo di dirilwego mabapi le lenyalo la setšo sa Bapedi. Le ge go ...
  • A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Prinsloo, Daniel (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
    A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a ...