• Subtitling, semiotics and spirited away 

  Sanders, Lisa (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, 2022-03)

  When translating a film according to typical subtitling models, the focus is usually solely on the dialogue of the film. Furthermore, the resulting translations are often impoverished to a large extent due to the constraints ...
• The future of metalexicography : reaching for the mesosphere 

  De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Bureau of the WAT, 2023-06)

  In this research article, a quantified look is taken at the metalexicographic endeavours of the past half century, starting in 1971. It is argued that the year 2021 represents a tipping point, and for that reason, when ...
• Generative AI and lexicography : the current state of the art using ChatGPT 

  De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Oxford University Press, 2023-12)

  In this article, all ten papers and talks that have been devoted to the use of ChatGPT in lexicography so far are critically analysed, their results tabulated and cross-compared, from which the leading trends are determined. ...
• Optical character recognition and text cleaning in the indigenous South African languages 

  Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Goosen, Michelle (Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2022)

  This article represents follow-up work on unpublished presentations by the authors of text and corpus cleaning strategies for the African languages. In this article we provide a comparative description of cleaning of ...
• The implications of Setswana hare folktales contemporary for South African children 

  Boya, Thapelo Bernard (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  In previous research, it has been stated that folktales are primarily told to teach moral lessons to children. However, this study demonstrates that Setswana hare folktales potentially teach the opposite of the intended ...
• Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga 

  De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)

  This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof­-of-­concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic ...
• Metalexicography : an existential crisis 

  De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)

  While there was arguably a need for multi-authored, multi-volume, metalexicographic handbooks three decades ago – when the field of metalexicography was still ‘young’ – it is a bit puzzling to make sense of the current ...
• Reduplication in Lusoga 

  Marlo, Michael R.; Nabirye, Minah; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Peeters Online Journals, 2022)

  This paper provides an in‑depth description of reduplication of verbs, nouns, and other word categories in Lusoga, drawing on introspected and elicited data, along with data from dictionaries and corpus texts, as well as ...
• Gender inequality in South African Nguni cultures, as portrayed in selected Nguni literary text. 

  Memela, Mbalenhle Melodious (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This research seeks to highlight the gender inequality brought by some of the rituals and traditions practised by South African Nguni cultures. It seeks to work as a mediator or a mouth for the parties that are being treated ...
• Critical analysis of issues that depict gender inequality and conflict between human rights and culture in Isiko Nelungelo and Intando Kamufi 

  Mathe, Siyabonga Muziwandile Gift (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  ABSTRACT South Africa has a diverse range of languages, races, religions, and ethnic communities. It has faced significant challenges – political, cultural, and socio-economic – since the arrival of democracy in 1994. ...
• A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi 

  Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Prinsloo, Daniel (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)

  A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a ...
• Lexicographic treatment of salient features and challenges in the creation of paper and electronic dictionaries 

  Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (European Association for Lexicography, 2021)

  This paper focuses on the need for lexicographers to study and to treat the salient features of languages satisfactorily and the challenges faced by lexicographers. The focus is on the challenges facing compilers of African ...
• A cross-linguistic study of blood metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho 

  Bosman, Nerina; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2021)

  Although a considerable body of corpus-based metaphor research—with Conceptual Metaphor Theory as theoretical framework and heuristic tool—has been published internationally, South African studies in this field are lagging ...
• Lexicographic data boxes. Part 2. Types and contents of data boxes with particular focus on dictionaries for English and African languages 

  Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Gouws, Rufus H. (Buro van die WAT, 2021)

  This article, the second in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, focuses pri-marily on the types and contents of data boxes with particular reference to dictionaries for English and African languages. It will be ...
• Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins lexicographer from A to Z 

  Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)

  No abstract available.
• Lexicographic data boxes. Part 1. Lexicographic data boxes as text constituents in dictionaries 

  Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)

  This article, the first in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, focuses primarily on the occurrence of lexicographic data boxes as text constituents in dictionaries. Following a brief look at what data boxes are, ...
• Lexicographic data boxes. Part 3. Aspects of data boxes in bilingual dictionaries and a perspective on current and future data boxes 

  Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)

  This article, the third in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, firstly focuses ona number of aspects of data boxes in bilingual dictionaries with the emphasis on different approaches in bilingual dictionaries ...
• Stereotyping in the novel Moelelwa : the dichotomy between laziness and maternal duties 

  Makgabo, Mmamoyahabo Constance; Ramagoshi, Refilwe M.; Zondi, Nompumelelo Bernadette (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2021)

  Some Sepedi authors perceive women as having to be confined to the home to only perform maternal duties, and women are ridiculed for not being able to fulfill the responsibilities of womanhood. This perception extends to ...
• Building a paralympic, frame-based dictionary - towards an inclusive design for Dicionário Paraolímpico (Unisinos/Brazil) 

  Chishman, Rove; Da Silva, Bruna; Nardes dos Santos, A; Vianna, A.L.; De Oliveira, S.; Martins, M.L.; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (European Association for Lexicography, 2021)

  This paper presents some theoretical and methodological issues emanating from the building of Dicionário Paraolímpico (Paralympic Dictionary), an online lexicographical resource that will describe the lexicon of Paralympic ...
• A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) 

  Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2021-08)

  This article employs a 4-million-word diachronic corpus to examine how the expression of possibility has evolved in Luganda since the 1890s to the present, by focusing on the language’s three main potential markers -yînz-, ...

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