Bassey E Antia
Biographic Data
| ID | 458371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bassey E Antia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bassey E |
| FAMILY NAME | Antia |
| SIGNATURE | ANTIA B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6117-6737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hornberger's Continua of Biliteracy Model
Hornberger's Continuum of Biliteracy (CoBi) model is a precursor to approaches such as translanguaging and the New London Group's multiliteracies. CoBi enables us to analyse and address language and literacy practices in education in a structured way. In this paper, I reflect on the explanatory power of CoBi in education in the Global South, drawing on my own research and experiences, as well as those of others. CoBi is shown to challenge many co…
Researching teacher multilingual-talk and student-benefits
Although supported by different ideologies of language, code-switching and translanguaging are, surprisingly perhaps, united in some of the claims made in their names. In the literature on classroom practices, one shared claim is that content is simplified for students when the teacher uses features enregistered as the non-official classroom language/s in a way that overlaps with and/or complements features enregistered as the official classroom …
Authorship, place and voice in research
The concept of voice has become crucial within academic discourse, where texts constitute sites for enacting identity. In spite of the recognition that expressing authorial voice in writing constitutes a salient feature of academic writing, various studies have pointed out that there appears to be a fair amount of trepidation when it comes to the expression of authorial voice in academic texts, especially so for L2 writers. The argument has been …
Significado texto-imanente
Neste artigo, coloco os campos da terminologia e do integracionismo em discussão sobre a questão da indeterminação do signo. Emprego as lentes oferecidas por ambos os paradigmas para discutir dados sobre a indeterminação dos termos em um texto sobre processo legislativo. Eu defendo que os dados parecem confirmar várias noções integracionistas interrelacionadas, incluindo a construção do significado como contextualização idiossincrática e o princí…
Decolonial Voices, Language and Race
Diagnostic Assessment of Academic Reading
Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, annotations have not been widely investigated for what they can reveal about the cognitive processes that are involved in academic reading. In other words, there has been limited exploration of the insights that signs (verbal and n…
Multilingual examinations
In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, the exoglossic/monolingual language regime for these examinations is infrequently acknowledged as contributing to the dismal performance of students. Even less attended to is the manner in which the language of examinations, throu…
Multilingual Assessment
This article examines the relatively understudied question of how cognition and emotion (as induced by language) interact in assessment situations in higher education contexts. It does so against the backdrop of different outcomes for students with varying forms of linguistic cultural capital in South African higher education. Applying phenomenology as methodology, we unpack the ways in which students at the University of the Western Cape experie…
Writing biology, assessing biology
There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high school students in assessment tasks. Relevant research has emphasized issues such as lexical load, complexity and metaphor. Variation in the use of terminology has, however, been relatively under researched, although there is evi…
Corruption in a diachronic corpus of Nigerian presidential speeches
Presidential speeches are often investigated as privileged readings of the state of the nation. A recurrent theme in the speeches of Nigerian presidents is corruption, and this reflects the enormity of national concern with the impact corruption has on social life, the economy and infrastructure development. Whereas research on corruption appears to be overwhelming due to its significance, questions useful for a more nuanced understanding of the …
Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university
Shh, hushed multilingualism! Accounting for the discreet genre of translanguaged siding in lecture halls at a South African university
Translanguaged siding is the term used here for the relatively under-researched phenomenon of student-to-student communication occurring in parallel to the teacher-talk, but using language and other semiotic resources that differ from the teacher's in order to shape understanding of the teacher's meanings or to make other meanings. This article draws on Fishman's reflections on his now famous 1965 question "Who speaks What language to Whom and Wh…
Theorising terminology development
The manner in which our conceptualisation and practice of terminology development can be informed by processes of knowledge change in child language development and a paradigm shift in disciplines, has been relatively underexplored. As a result, insights into what appears to be fundamental processes of knowledge change have not been employed to reflect on terminology development, its dynamics, requirements and relationship to related fields. In t…
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties
University multilingualism
This article offers a narrative of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, from the prism of the duality of language as a co-modality (with people, protest, policy and practices) for constituting the institution in whole or in part and as a reflection of its co-modalities. For its framing, the narrative eclectically draws on language politics and policy, a grammar of multilingual landscapes and the epistemology of linguistics. Besides c…
The interaction of text and visual in specialized dictionary definitions
Although visuals have been co-deployed with text in specialized dictionaries as far back as the European Renaissance, the interaction of both representational modalities is relatively under-researched. As a consequence, available knowledge is relatively limited with respect to the kinds of visuals employed in specialized dictionaries, the kinds of definiendum that elicit specific types of visuals, the functions of visuals relative to text in defi…
Terminologie, sécurité alimentaire et santé publique
Le présent article interroge la place des analyses terminologiques dans le domaine de l’élevage dans la province de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, qui mérite bien d’être qualifié de stratégique et même de critique en matière de sécurité. En effet, les enjeux sont de taille, puisqu’ils concernent non seulement la sécurité alimentaire et la santé publique, mais aussi d’autres objectifs sociaux. L’article présente une analyse d’un corpus de termes de m…
Shaping Translation
This article discusses translation-oriented terminology over a time frame that is more or less congruent with META’s life span. Against the backdrop of the place of terminology in shaping professional issues in translation, we initially describe some stages in the process by which terminology has acquired institutional identity in translator training programmes and constituted its knowledge base. We then suggest a framework that seeks to show how…
La traduction en anglais de la littérature francophone
Cet article présente un bref historique du phénomène de la traduction vers l'anglais de la littérature africaine de langue française. On y aborde la fonctionnalité de la traduction au Nigeria : la découverte de l'Autre; puis l'auteur fait un survol critique de certaines de ces traductions. Elle conclut que ce type de traduction aurait avantage à être éditées en Afrique
Terminological investigations into specialized knowledge and texts
Research has traditionally portrayed language for specialized purposes (LSP) as devoid of idiosyncrasy, indeterminacy, context-specificity, inter-cultural variation, inconsistency of expression and acceptation, among other attributes associated with general or non-specialized discourse. This article suggests that attitudes and practices spawned by an uncritical reading of traditional LSP research could indeed constitute a hindrance to the adequat…
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties
Diagnostic Assessment of Academic Reading
Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, annotations have not been widely investigated for what they can reveal about the cognitive processes that are involved in academic reading. In other words, there has been limited exploration of the insights that signs (verbal and n…
Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university
University multilingualism
This article offers a narrative of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, from the prism of the duality of language as a co-modality (with people, protest, policy and practices) for constituting the institution in whole or in part and as a reflection of its co-modalities. For its framing, the narrative eclectically draws on language politics and policy, a grammar of multilingual landscapes and the epistemology of linguistics. Besides c…
Terminological investigations into specialized knowledge and texts
Research has traditionally portrayed language for specialized purposes (LSP) as devoid of idiosyncrasy, indeterminacy, context-specificity, inter-cultural variation, inconsistency of expression and acceptation, among other attributes associated with general or non-specialized discourse. This article suggests that attitudes and practices spawned by an uncritical reading of traditional LSP research could indeed constitute a hindrance to the adequat…
La traduction en anglais de la littérature francophone
Cet article présente un bref historique du phénomène de la traduction vers l'anglais de la littérature africaine de langue française. On y aborde la fonctionnalité de la traduction au Nigeria : la découverte de l'Autre; puis l'auteur fait un survol critique de certaines de ces traductions. Elle conclut que ce type de traduction aurait avantage à être éditées en Afrique
Terminologie, sécurité alimentaire et santé publique
Le présent article interroge la place des analyses terminologiques dans le domaine de l’élevage dans la province de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, qui mérite bien d’être qualifié de stratégique et même de critique en matière de sécurité. En effet, les enjeux sont de taille, puisqu’ils concernent non seulement la sécurité alimentaire et la santé publique, mais aussi d’autres objectifs sociaux. L’article présente une analyse d’un corpus de termes de m…
Shaping Translation
This article discusses translation-oriented terminology over a time frame that is more or less congruent with META’s life span. Against the backdrop of the place of terminology in shaping professional issues in translation, we initially describe some stages in the process by which terminology has acquired institutional identity in translator training programmes and constituted its knowledge base. We then suggest a framework that seeks to show how…
The interaction of text and visual in specialized dictionary definitions
Although visuals have been co-deployed with text in specialized dictionaries as far back as the European Renaissance, the interaction of both representational modalities is relatively under-researched. As a consequence, available knowledge is relatively limited with respect to the kinds of visuals employed in specialized dictionaries, the kinds of definiendum that elicit specific types of visuals, the functions of visuals relative to text in defi…
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties
University multilingualism
This article offers a narrative of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, from the prism of the duality of language as a co-modality (with people, protest, policy and practices) for constituting the institution in whole or in part and as a reflection of its co-modalities. For its framing, the narrative eclectically draws on language politics and policy, a grammar of multilingual landscapes and the epistemology of linguistics. Besides c…
Theorising terminology development
The manner in which our conceptualisation and practice of terminology development can be informed by processes of knowledge change in child language development and a paradigm shift in disciplines, has been relatively underexplored. As a result, insights into what appears to be fundamental processes of knowledge change have not been employed to reflect on terminology development, its dynamics, requirements and relationship to related fields. In t…
Shh, hushed multilingualism! Accounting for the discreet genre of translanguaged siding in lecture halls at a South African university
Translanguaged siding is the term used here for the relatively under-researched phenomenon of student-to-student communication occurring in parallel to the teacher-talk, but using language and other semiotic resources that differ from the teacher's in order to shape understanding of the teacher's meanings or to make other meanings. This article draws on Fishman's reflections on his now famous 1965 question "Who speaks What language to Whom and Wh…
Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university
Corruption in a diachronic corpus of Nigerian presidential speeches
Presidential speeches are often investigated as privileged readings of the state of the nation. A recurrent theme in the speeches of Nigerian presidents is corruption, and this reflects the enormity of national concern with the impact corruption has on social life, the economy and infrastructure development. Whereas research on corruption appears to be overwhelming due to its significance, questions useful for a more nuanced understanding of the …
Multilingual examinations
In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, the exoglossic/monolingual language regime for these examinations is infrequently acknowledged as contributing to the dismal performance of students. Even less attended to is the manner in which the language of examinations, throu…
Multilingual Assessment
This article examines the relatively understudied question of how cognition and emotion (as induced by language) interact in assessment situations in higher education contexts. It does so against the backdrop of different outcomes for students with varying forms of linguistic cultural capital in South African higher education. Applying phenomenology as methodology, we unpack the ways in which students at the University of the Western Cape experie…
Writing biology, assessing biology
There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high school students in assessment tasks. Relevant research has emphasized issues such as lexical load, complexity and metaphor. Variation in the use of terminology has, however, been relatively under researched, although there is evi…
Significado texto-imanente
Neste artigo, coloco os campos da terminologia e do integracionismo em discussão sobre a questão da indeterminação do signo. Emprego as lentes oferecidas por ambos os paradigmas para discutir dados sobre a indeterminação dos termos em um texto sobre processo legislativo. Eu defendo que os dados parecem confirmar várias noções integracionistas interrelacionadas, incluindo a construção do significado como contextualização idiossincrática e o princí…
Decolonial Voices, Language and Race
Diagnostic Assessment of Academic Reading
Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, annotations have not been widely investigated for what they can reveal about the cognitive processes that are involved in academic reading. In other words, there has been limited exploration of the insights that signs (verbal and n…
Authorship, place and voice in research
The concept of voice has become crucial within academic discourse, where texts constitute sites for enacting identity. In spite of the recognition that expressing authorial voice in writing constitutes a salient feature of academic writing, various studies have pointed out that there appears to be a fair amount of trepidation when it comes to the expression of authorial voice in academic texts, especially so for L2 writers. The argument has been …
Researching teacher multilingual-talk and student-benefits
Although supported by different ideologies of language, code-switching and translanguaging are, surprisingly perhaps, united in some of the claims made in their names. In the literature on classroom practices, one shared claim is that content is simplified for students when the teacher uses features enregistered as the non-official classroom language/s in a way that overlaps with and/or complements features enregistered as the official classroom …
Hornberger's Continua of Biliteracy Model
Hornberger's Continuum of Biliteracy (CoBi) model is a precursor to approaches such as translanguaging and the New London Group's multiliteracies. CoBi enables us to analyse and address language and literacy practices in education in a structured way. In this paper, I reflect on the explanatory power of CoBi in education in the Global South, drawing on my own research and experiences, as well as those of others. CoBi is shown to challenge many co…
Sociology (17 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (7 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works)