Elsabé Taljard
Biographic Data
| ID | 139826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsabé Taljard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsabé |
| FAMILY NAME | Taljard |
| SIGNATURE | TALJARD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4507-1633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani
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 (‘The tycoon of Pietermaritzburg’) by CLS Nyembezi, and Kuxolelwa abanjani? (‘Who deserves to be forgiven?’) by NG Sibiya. Our investigation regarding Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu failed to deliver significant results, therefore o…
Optimalisering van gratis elektroniese/aanlyn hulpbronne vir woordeboek-samestelling — 'n drietalige woordeboekeksperiment
Optimization of Free Online/Electronic Resources for Dictionary Compilation — A Trilingual Dictionary Experiment. The availability of multilingual dictionaries is crucial, not only for direct target users, but also for indirect target users, especially in the case of languages with scarce resources such as Venda. This article explores the optimal use of free electronic/online resources for compiling a trilingual e-dictionary for Venda, English an…
The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant
This article reports on an evaluation of the Sepedi Helper (http://www.sepedihelper.co.za/), an online writing assistant. The focus of the evaluation is on the verbal moods in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). The evaluation takes the form of a user study, and data collection was done by means of a questionnaire, administered to 81 first- and second-year students at a tertiary institution who do not have Sepedi as their strongest/home language. Analysis o…
The Semantics of Eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho
The abundant and systematic presence of metaphor in language has in particular been explored by departing from the embodied nature of many metaphors. In the current research we investigate the manner in which the concept EATING in two nonrelated languages, namely Afrikaans (a Germanic language) and Northern Sotho (a Bantu language) gives rise to metaphorical expressions in these two languages. The two notions of cultural model and metaphor form t…
In search of larger units of meaning
The availability of large-scale electronic language corpora has led to revolutionary changes in the landscape of linguistic research. Corpus linguistics has in the past few decades developed from an alternative methodology of linguistic investigation to a fully-fledged theoretical approach to linguistic study. Furthermore, having access to electronic corpora has lead scholars such as Sinclair (2004) to redefine the basic unit of meaning of langua…
Translating technical (LSP) texts into the official South African languages
Translating technical texts into the South African Bantu languages, and to a lesser extent into Afrikaans, is an activity fraught with problems, the biggest one being the lack of terminology in these languages. In this article-undertaken within the framework of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CTS), and more specifically within the subfield of Applied CTS-we focus on technical translation in the official South African languages, with specific re…
Cattle and cattle colour terminology in South Africa
A comparison between cattle colour terminology found in the Khoikhoi languages and that found in South African Bantu languages brings noticeable similarities to light, leading to the assumption that both the cattle and the terms used to describe their characteristic features were acquired by the South Eastern Bantu-speakers through contact with Khoikhoi pastoralists. In this article we investigate the possibility that these terminological similar…
Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams
In Northern Sotho one of the strategies to express locality makes use of locative particle groups, being complements preceded by any of the so-called locative particles ka, kua, mo, ga, or go . Current linguistic descriptions shy away from those cases where sequences of such particles are employed. In this article these sequences are termed “locative n-grams” and are studied for the first time. It will be shown that, synchronically, just a handfu…
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Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams
In Northern Sotho one of the strategies to express locality makes use of locative particle groups, being complements preceded by any of the so-called locative particles ka, kua, mo, ga, or go . Current linguistic descriptions shy away from those cases where sequences of such particles are employed. In this article these sequences are termed “locative n-grams” and are studied for the first time. It will be shown that, synchronically, just a handfu…
Translating technical (LSP) texts into the official South African languages
Translating technical texts into the South African Bantu languages, and to a lesser extent into Afrikaans, is an activity fraught with problems, the biggest one being the lack of terminology in these languages. In this article-undertaken within the framework of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CTS), and more specifically within the subfield of Applied CTS-we focus on technical translation in the official South African languages, with specific re…
Cattle and cattle colour terminology in South Africa
A comparison between cattle colour terminology found in the Khoikhoi languages and that found in South African Bantu languages brings noticeable similarities to light, leading to the assumption that both the cattle and the terms used to describe their characteristic features were acquired by the South Eastern Bantu-speakers through contact with Khoikhoi pastoralists. In this article we investigate the possibility that these terminological similar…
The Semantics of Eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho
The abundant and systematic presence of metaphor in language has in particular been explored by departing from the embodied nature of many metaphors. In the current research we investigate the manner in which the concept EATING in two nonrelated languages, namely Afrikaans (a Germanic language) and Northern Sotho (a Bantu language) gives rise to metaphorical expressions in these two languages. The two notions of cultural model and metaphor form t…
In search of larger units of meaning
The availability of large-scale electronic language corpora has led to revolutionary changes in the landscape of linguistic research. Corpus linguistics has in the past few decades developed from an alternative methodology of linguistic investigation to a fully-fledged theoretical approach to linguistic study. Furthermore, having access to electronic corpora has lead scholars such as Sinclair (2004) to redefine the basic unit of meaning of langua…
The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant
This article reports on an evaluation of the Sepedi Helper (http://www.sepedihelper.co.za/), an online writing assistant. The focus of the evaluation is on the verbal moods in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). The evaluation takes the form of a user study, and data collection was done by means of a questionnaire, administered to 81 first- and second-year students at a tertiary institution who do not have Sepedi as their strongest/home language. Analysis o…
Optimalisering van gratis elektroniese/aanlyn hulpbronne vir woordeboek-samestelling — 'n drietalige woordeboekeksperiment
Optimization of Free Online/Electronic Resources for Dictionary Compilation — A Trilingual Dictionary Experiment. The availability of multilingual dictionaries is crucial, not only for direct target users, but also for indirect target users, especially in the case of languages with scarce resources such as Venda. This article explores the optimal use of free electronic/online resources for compiling a trilingual e-dictionary for Venda, English an…
Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani
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 (‘The tycoon of Pietermaritzburg’) by CLS Nyembezi, and Kuxolelwa abanjani? (‘Who deserves to be forgiven?’) by NG Sibiya. Our investigation regarding Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu failed to deliver significant results, therefore o…
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Bantu languages (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)