Liqhwa Siziba
Biographic Data
| ID | 388680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liqhwa Siziba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liqhwa |
| FAMILY NAME | Siziba |
| SIGNATURE | SIZIBA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4088-159X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Negotiating family language policy online: Affordances of WhatsApp among digital families
Increasing global economic inequality, conflicts, and climate change have accelerated population migration, often resulting in the disruption of traditional family configurations. However, the proliferation of digital communication platforms has helped foster a sense of family by creating more communication opportunities for geographically dispersed families. Because of their extensive reliance on digital communication, they have come to be known…
Digital dehumanization and caricature of women through misogynistic language as reflected in selected Whatsapp groups
There has been growing concern over the persistent unequal treatment of women compared with counterparts in African societies. Despite efforts by advocacy groups and legal frameworks to promote gender equality, the advent of the digital age has brought another dimension of gender-based discrimination. Women are frequently portrayed in a defamatory and caricatured way on social media platforms, while men have been approbated and portrayed as prodi…
Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe
This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to enforce L1 instruction in early childhood classes in his predominantly Ndebele‐speaking Bubi constituency. W…
Violence, Memory and Resistance in Selected Highlanders FC Supporters’ Songs
Family language policy tensions in Ndebele-Shona intermarriages
Linguistic intermarriages are now a common feature of contemporary societies as a consequence of migration and globalisation. In some contexts, intermarriages contribute to the creation of bilingual families because of children's exposure to the different languages of their parents. In these families, tensions around bilingual child-rearing and language socialisation often arise from mismatched parents' ideologies about what languages represent a…
Scaffolding African Language Intellectualisation: The Case of Sesotho and Setswana at a South African University
The call for the intellectualisation of African languages has become a topical agenda towards their use as languages of teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa. In their enunciation of language policies, South African universities are guided by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)’s Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions (LPFPHEI). The thrust of this paper is to interrogate …
Intellectualising African languages in literature and linguistics at selected Zimbabwean higher learning institutions
The incorporation of specialised domains of knowledge such as STEM subjects into the discourse surrounding the intellectualisation of African languages has become increasingly prevalent. However, scant attention has been given to examining the extent to which the intellectualisation of African languages for the instruction and study of literature and linguistics at institutions of higher learning has progressed. The article argues that prior to f…
Family language policy as shaped by return migration: Reflections of Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
Following uncertainty surrounding the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits and changes to immigration policies and laws regulating the employment of foreigners in South Africa, Zimbabwe has been witnessing the return migration of families from South Africa. This phenomenon is also exacerbated by the increasing xenophobic sentiment infecting South African society. Some returnees are accompanied by children who were born in South Africa and speak South Afric…
Multilingual contestations and the reproduction of English legitimacy in bottom-up linguistic landscape: An analysis of shop signs in Bulawayo
Linguistic landscape refers to language visibility on public signs. This includes language on public buildings, street names and shop signs. The configuration of the linguistic landscape of an area is often shaped by extra-linguistic systems such as the history, politics, culture and the general ideological climate. This study analysed the bottom-up linguistic landscape of the city of Bulawayo to reveal how contestations on multilingualism and th…
Micro language planning as a contested space: Evidence from a South African university
Micro language planning is often framed as democratic, transformative, inclusive, and therefore, less contested as it reproduces community consensus and support. This is contrasted with macro or top-down language planning which is power inflected and weaponised to serve interests of the dominant class. Through a theorisation of institutional language policies as products of micro language planning, this article analyses the language policy of one…
Environmental Conservation and the Bulawayo CBD as a Linguistic Landscape Construction: An Ecolinguistics Perspective
This study deploys the ecolinguistics perspective to examine how purposively selected signs communicate environmental conservation issues in the city of Bulawayo as a linguistic landscape construction. Drawing on Haugen's language ecology model and Halliday's eco-discursive approach, the study reveals that the dominance of English and the invisibility of indigenous languages violate an inclusive ecosophy couched on principles of diversity and har…
Continuities or Change: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Documented Language Policies of Selected Universities in South Africa
In line with the requirements of Department of Higher Education and Training’s language policy framework, universities in South Africa have crafted language policies that commit to promote multilingualism and contribute to the transformation of higher education. This article is an analysis of previous and current revised language policies of North-West University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. By focusing on the wording and framing …
On the dialectics of policy and practice: Multilingualism and the virtual linguistic landscape of a South African university
Previous studies on linguistic landscapes have focused on language representation in public signs within fixed physical places. Recent developments on the global stage have brought dynamics of language contestations in virtual spaces to prominence. This study deploys the notion of Virtual Linguistic Landscape (VLL) to explore the nature of language visibility in cyberspace as a virtual linguistic landscape construction. By conceptualising website…
Mainstreaming translanguaging pedagogy through language policy: Opportunities and challenges in a South African university
This article is a critical analysis of principles for the provision of translanguaging in the language policy of North-West University. It draws on the conceptualization of translanguaging as a transformative, inclusive, and empowering practice (Cenoz & Gorter 2022a,b, Kleyn & García 2019, Tai 2022) and attempts to uncover the mood and dispositions of the university toward mainstreaming this practice for the inclusion of indigenous African langua…
Instruction through Translanguaging in Triglossic Classroom Contexts of Midlands Province in Zimbabwe
In the Midlands province of Zimbabwe, there are mainly three languages, Shona, Ndebele, and English that are used in schools although at home it is mainly Shona and Ndebele. Midlands lies right on the isogloss where Shona is predominant on one side and Ndebele on the other. The paper scrutinises how translanguaging as a method of teaching takes place in a situation where there are three languages at play but such languages are not at par. Shona a…
The idea of southern Africa in the humanities and social science disciplines
The role of the academy in the manufacture of individual and group identities remains least understood from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The legitimation and consumption of such identity discourses (by both academic practitioners and the general public) have also been inadequately theorised. What is well known and heavily theorised is the subject of how disciplines have created their own identities but the consequence of such disciplin…
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The idea of southern Africa in the humanities and social science disciplines
The role of the academy in the manufacture of individual and group identities remains least understood from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The legitimation and consumption of such identity discourses (by both academic practitioners and the general public) have also been inadequately theorised. What is well known and heavily theorised is the subject of how disciplines have created their own identities but the consequence of such disciplin…
Instruction through Translanguaging in Triglossic Classroom Contexts of Midlands Province in Zimbabwe
In the Midlands province of Zimbabwe, there are mainly three languages, Shona, Ndebele, and English that are used in schools although at home it is mainly Shona and Ndebele. Midlands lies right on the isogloss where Shona is predominant on one side and Ndebele on the other. The paper scrutinises how translanguaging as a method of teaching takes place in a situation where there are three languages at play but such languages are not at par. Shona a…
Continuities or Change: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Documented Language Policies of Selected Universities in South Africa
In line with the requirements of Department of Higher Education and Training’s language policy framework, universities in South Africa have crafted language policies that commit to promote multilingualism and contribute to the transformation of higher education. This article is an analysis of previous and current revised language policies of North-West University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. By focusing on the wording and framing …
On the dialectics of policy and practice: Multilingualism and the virtual linguistic landscape of a South African university
Previous studies on linguistic landscapes have focused on language representation in public signs within fixed physical places. Recent developments on the global stage have brought dynamics of language contestations in virtual spaces to prominence. This study deploys the notion of Virtual Linguistic Landscape (VLL) to explore the nature of language visibility in cyberspace as a virtual linguistic landscape construction. By conceptualising website…
Mainstreaming translanguaging pedagogy through language policy: Opportunities and challenges in a South African university
This article is a critical analysis of principles for the provision of translanguaging in the language policy of North-West University. It draws on the conceptualization of translanguaging as a transformative, inclusive, and empowering practice (Cenoz & Gorter 2022a,b, Kleyn & García 2019, Tai 2022) and attempts to uncover the mood and dispositions of the university toward mainstreaming this practice for the inclusion of indigenous African langua…
Family language policy tensions in Ndebele-Shona intermarriages
Linguistic intermarriages are now a common feature of contemporary societies as a consequence of migration and globalisation. In some contexts, intermarriages contribute to the creation of bilingual families because of children's exposure to the different languages of their parents. In these families, tensions around bilingual child-rearing and language socialisation often arise from mismatched parents' ideologies about what languages represent a…
Scaffolding African Language Intellectualisation: The Case of Sesotho and Setswana at a South African University
The call for the intellectualisation of African languages has become a topical agenda towards their use as languages of teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa. In their enunciation of language policies, South African universities are guided by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)’s Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions (LPFPHEI). The thrust of this paper is to interrogate …
Intellectualising African languages in literature and linguistics at selected Zimbabwean higher learning institutions
The incorporation of specialised domains of knowledge such as STEM subjects into the discourse surrounding the intellectualisation of African languages has become increasingly prevalent. However, scant attention has been given to examining the extent to which the intellectualisation of African languages for the instruction and study of literature and linguistics at institutions of higher learning has progressed. The article argues that prior to f…
Family language policy as shaped by return migration: Reflections of Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
Following uncertainty surrounding the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits and changes to immigration policies and laws regulating the employment of foreigners in South Africa, Zimbabwe has been witnessing the return migration of families from South Africa. This phenomenon is also exacerbated by the increasing xenophobic sentiment infecting South African society. Some returnees are accompanied by children who were born in South Africa and speak South Afric…
Multilingual contestations and the reproduction of English legitimacy in bottom-up linguistic landscape: An analysis of shop signs in Bulawayo
Linguistic landscape refers to language visibility on public signs. This includes language on public buildings, street names and shop signs. The configuration of the linguistic landscape of an area is often shaped by extra-linguistic systems such as the history, politics, culture and the general ideological climate. This study analysed the bottom-up linguistic landscape of the city of Bulawayo to reveal how contestations on multilingualism and th…
Micro language planning as a contested space: Evidence from a South African university
Micro language planning is often framed as democratic, transformative, inclusive, and therefore, less contested as it reproduces community consensus and support. This is contrasted with macro or top-down language planning which is power inflected and weaponised to serve interests of the dominant class. Through a theorisation of institutional language policies as products of micro language planning, this article analyses the language policy of one…
Environmental Conservation and the Bulawayo CBD as a Linguistic Landscape Construction: An Ecolinguistics Perspective
This study deploys the ecolinguistics perspective to examine how purposively selected signs communicate environmental conservation issues in the city of Bulawayo as a linguistic landscape construction. Drawing on Haugen's language ecology model and Halliday's eco-discursive approach, the study reveals that the dominance of English and the invisibility of indigenous languages violate an inclusive ecosophy couched on principles of diversity and har…
Violence, Memory and Resistance in Selected Highlanders FC Supporters’ Songs
Negotiating family language policy online: Affordances of WhatsApp among digital families
Increasing global economic inequality, conflicts, and climate change have accelerated population migration, often resulting in the disruption of traditional family configurations. However, the proliferation of digital communication platforms has helped foster a sense of family by creating more communication opportunities for geographically dispersed families. Because of their extensive reliance on digital communication, they have come to be known…
Digital dehumanization and caricature of women through misogynistic language as reflected in selected Whatsapp groups
There has been growing concern over the persistent unequal treatment of women compared with counterparts in African societies. Despite efforts by advocacy groups and legal frameworks to promote gender equality, the advent of the digital age has brought another dimension of gender-based discrimination. Women are frequently portrayed in a defamatory and caricatured way on social media platforms, while men have been approbated and portrayed as prodi…
Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe
This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to enforce L1 instruction in early childhood classes in his predominantly Ndebele‐speaking Bubi constituency. W…
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