Mampoi Irene Mabena
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mampoi Irene Mabena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mampoi Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Mabena |
| SIGNATURE | MABENA M I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1651-0833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From the incoming Editor-in-Chief
‘I’m healed, ready to go home tomorrow’
Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English
This paper explores five borrowed discourse-pragmatic features—wena, mna/mina, yazi, phela, and ke—which are transferred from indigenous South African languages into South African English, with the objective of investigating their frequency, position, collocational patterns, and discourse-pragmatic functions. The data, which are taken from the South African component of the Global Web-based English corpus, are analysed quantitatively and qualitat…
Eish it’s getting really interesting”
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, eish , yho , tjo , sho , hayi , hau, and mxm , which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position, collocational forms and discourse-pragmatic roles of these seven interjections, through the lens of pragmatic borrowing and postcolonial corpus pragmatics. The data were retrieved …
Sesotho figurative language
Commissions of enquiry have become a common platform for establishing facts where there have been disputes. They are often established to unpack the facts that would have led to controversies and make recommendations for solutions to such conflicts. Language then becomes an essential tool that facilitates extracting information that helps the commission to get to the truth and make informed recommendations. This article critically analyses the ro…
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Sesotho figurative language
Commissions of enquiry have become a common platform for establishing facts where there have been disputes. They are often established to unpack the facts that would have led to controversies and make recommendations for solutions to such conflicts. Language then becomes an essential tool that facilitates extracting information that helps the commission to get to the truth and make informed recommendations. This article critically analyses the ro…
Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English
This paper explores five borrowed discourse-pragmatic features—wena, mna/mina, yazi, phela, and ke—which are transferred from indigenous South African languages into South African English, with the objective of investigating their frequency, position, collocational patterns, and discourse-pragmatic functions. The data, which are taken from the South African component of the Global Web-based English corpus, are analysed quantitatively and qualitat…
Eish it’s getting really interesting”
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, eish , yho , tjo , sho , hayi , hau, and mxm , which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position, collocational forms and discourse-pragmatic roles of these seven interjections, through the lens of pragmatic borrowing and postcolonial corpus pragmatics. The data were retrieved …
From the incoming Editor-in-Chief
‘I’m healed, ready to go home tomorrow’
Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Academic Publishing and Open Access (1 work) · Biotechnology and Related Fields (1 work) · Commission (1 work) · Discourse analysis (1 work)