Abstract: South Africa’s higher education language policy framework formally recognises indigenous African languages, including Setswana, and mandates their development as languages of teaching, research, and institutional governance. Despite these commitments, Setswana remains marginal in high-status academic domains, with English continuing to dominate disciplinary instruction, postgraduate scholarship, research publication, and institutional... More

Abstract: This study examines literary toponymy as a strategic resource for constructing, contesting, and reimagining national and regional identities in Latin American narrative discourse. Given the continent’s fundamental history, marked by the synthesis and violent clash of indigenous, European, and African cultures, toponyms in literature appear not as neutral geographical labels but as rich ideological signifiers. The article systematically... More

Abstract: This study investigates the structural and semantic stability of Tshivenḓa proverbs through a Construction Grammar-informed morphosyntactic analysis and an examination of variation across oral and digital communication. While African proverbs have long been recognised as repositories of indigenous knowledge and moral instruction, limited attention has been paid to the linguistic mechanisms underlying their resistance to structural change. The... More