Browsing by Author "Matiki, Alfred J."

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  • Patterns of lexical borrowing in Chichewa 

    Matiki, Alfred J. (Journal of the Linguistics Association of Southern African Development Community Universities, journals.ub.bw/index.php/lasu, 2016-07-28)
    Lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language change. The study of loanwords can give important insights into the cultural and socio-historical circumstances of a language. This paper examines lexical borrowing ...

  • A Socio-pragmatic analysis of compliment responses among students at the University of Botswana 

    Matiki, Alfred J.; Kgolo, Naledi N. (University of Malawi, http://www.unima.mw/, 2017)
    Using tape-recorded interviews as well as Discourse Completion Tasks on compliment responses as elicitation methods, this study set out to investigate the linguistic resources that students at the University of Botswana ...