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Narrative materiality and practice: A study of born-free negotiation of periphery and centre	701	2	0	703
Influence of Sepitori on standard Setswana of its home language learners at three Tshwane townships	214	396	15	625
L'héroïsme de la femme dans l'épopée africaine : un regard critique de Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue, Emperor Shaka The Great : A Zulu Epic et Nsongo'a Lianja : l'épopée nationale des Nkundo	40	532	10	582
Dr Kobayashi's dream	367	164	0	531
De Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast: A feminist analysis	485	16	18	519
English as a medium of worship: The experiences of the congregants of a Pentecostal charismatic church in Soweto	171	16	216	403
Strategies for building wordnets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages	365	7	4	376
Die aandete: 'n Resensie	314	19	0	333
Cathy's mourning in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights	236	14	2	252
Strategies used in the translation of fixed expressions in magazines: A comparison of selected texts with Afrikaans as source language and South African English as target language	233	14	2	249
Gender and the transsexual body in Transamerica	150	13	4	167
Reading protest and myth in Malawian literature: 1964-1990s	87	78	0	165
Die /r/ in Afrikaans: Fonetiese en fonologiese eienskappe	53	89	16	158
Do not let him die: Celebrating the legacy of Es'kia Mphahlele	117	39	0	156
New approaches and strategies for teaching African children initial reading	125	18	11	154
Imagining the future nation: A critical appreciation of Emmanuel Ngara's vision in Songs from the Temple	116	6	30	152
The Gothic genre, classical allusion and other influences in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray	134	8	8	150
'Taming untamed pests': Representing female sexualities in Tiyambe Zeleza's Smouldering Charcoal and James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with Salt	103	40	1	144
I am/am I an African? A relational reading of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction by J.U. Jacobs	98	32	2	132
Die spook van Afrikaneridentiteit in Toorberg, Die stoetmeester en Die swye van Mario Salviati (Etienne van Heerden)	13	106	13	132
Iceni to iconic: Literary, political and ideological transformations of Boudica through time	122	9	1	132
Kaka country: An intertextual reading of national dysfunction in Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Jinga's One Foreigner's Ordeal	115	12	2	129
Post-imperial imaginaries in Zimbabwe: Interrogating betrayal in the pre- and post-war years in Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns and Child of War	109	10	10	129
Towards a theory of parental support: Development of English First Additional Language for grade 4 learners	98	17	13	128
Rewards and punishments as developing gendered ideologies in Grimm Brothers' Briar Rose	91	19	15	125
'I was a Girl of my Time': A feminist literary analysis of representations of time and gender in selected contemporary South African fiction by women	47	71	6	124
Freud, Said, and the ancient and classical worlds	101	17	1	119
Considering the alternative: Bakhtin's carnivalesque and convergence of worlds of animals and humans in Yann Martel's Life of Pi	100	14	0	114
Africa in Brathwaite: The matrix of cultural quest, identity and history as poetic vision	81	28	0	109
Ecofeminist invitations in the works of Sindiwe Magona	88	8	3	99
Reading Zimbabwe's structural and political violence through the trope of the unnameable and unnamed in Brian Chikwava's Harare North	82	12	3	97
Leonine imagery in C.S. Lewis's series The Chronicles of Narnia	84	12	1	97
'Speaking' and 'silence' in the memoirs of Petronella van Heerden	76	12	6	94
Maxwell Anderson's song lyric 'Lost in the Stars' and his Ulyssean adaptation of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country	70	16	4	90
'Stepping into the painting': Franz Marc, Mary Oliver and the ekphrastic process	74	12	2	88
The trauma of home and (non)belonging in Zimbabwe and its diaspora: 'Conversion disorder' in Shadows by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma	74	8	2	84
The indigenous Afrikaans film: Representation as a nationalistic endeavour	71	12	0	83
Crampton and Engerth: The 'mechanical brides' of J-K. Huysmans	58	11	13	82
Imperialism and the abject Gothic double: Jane Goodwin Austin's 'After Three Thousand Years'	52	14	13	79
(In)dependent meaning: Representations of addiction and recovery in selected poems produced in a rehabilitation centre	54	18	3	75
Norme vir huidiglik	13	52	3	68
Learners' attitudes towards the recognition and development of isiBhaca in the education space in Umzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	46	16	6	68
Michiel Heyns's Lost Ground: The white man's sense of identity and place in a decolonised Africa and a democratic South Africa	34	10	23	67
Double standards on dress code and lust in the guise of tradition in the novel Umshado [Marriage], 2006, by N. Zulu: A feminist approach	47	20	0	67
Antjie Krog's Mede-wete/Synapse as a challenge to new ways of comparative reading	53	6	4	63
Echoes of lithoko in modern Sesotho poetry: An intertextual perspective	11	50	2	63
'We live one in another': The Gothic and uncanny representation of the female double in The Crime of Laura Sarelle by Joseph Shearing (pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen)	60	1	1	62
Exploring Grade 8 Khelobedu-speaking learners' writing challenges in Sepedi Home Language in Mopani District, South Africa	44	10	7	61
Die politiek van die mens-hondverhouding in Op 'n dag, 'n hond van John Miles	27	27	3	57
Blended learning in a first-year language class: Evaluating the acceptance of an interactive learning environment	37	12	4	53
Using ParaConc to extract bilingual terminology from parallel corpora: A case of English and Ndebele	47	3	3	53
The elevation of Sepedi from a dialect to an official standard language: Cultural and economic power and political influence matter	39	9	4	52
Meditasies in 'n begraafplaas: 'n Verkenning van Afrikaanse grafdigters en kerkhofpoësie	19	29	3	51
Die uitbeelding van die vrou in Huisgenoot (1963 en 2013): 'n Multimodale diskoersanalise	23	23	4	50
Huldeblyk aan 'n blymoedige gewer	32	16	0	48
Woordeboekdidaktiek in 'n omvattende woordeboekkultuur	12	32	4	48
Die ontwikkeling van [ʃ] in Afrikaans	19	22	7	48
James Henry Greathead and the London Underground	23	17	7	47
Unhomeliness, unending phobias and liminality in Senait Mehari's Heart of Fire	29	9	8	46
Mostly 'black' and 'white': 'Race', complicity and restitution in the non-fiction of Antjie Krog	30	13	2	45
They don't make plus size spacesuits: A fat studies analysis of selected literary texts	30	4	9	43
Code switching in contemporary isiZulu performance poetry	38	3	2	43
Diversity, variation and fairness: Equivalence in national level language assessments	30	5	7	42
Inference generation and text comprehension in bilingual children: A case study	28	12	1	41
Die gebruik van opmerkings as 'n strategie tydens die verantwoordbare redigering van akademiese tekste	13	22	6	41
Are ideophones translatable? The case of translating isiZulu ideophones in DBZ Ntuli's short story Uthingo Lwenkosazana (The Rainbow)	33	5	3	41
A critique of 'A re-evaluation of tense in isiZulu'	28	10	2	40
Politieke strategieë van aktiviste vir die amptelike erkenning van Afrikaans	14	21	5	40
On the neo-Vedanta as reconceptualised by Vivekananda in his Complete Works: A cognitive linguistic analysis in light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory	29	11	0	40
Poësie met 'n mistieke ondertoon uit die Oos-Ortodokse tradisie	36	4	0	40
The plague of Athens	37	3	0	40
The onomastic possibility of renaming the Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) language names to restore peace, dignity and solidarity	33	5	2	40
Oral literature and the evolving Jim-goes-to-town motif: Some early Northern Sotho compared to selected post-apartheid novels written in English	23	15	0	38
Designing a digital pedagogical pattern for improving foreign language learners' oral proficiency	20	13	4	37
South African Grade 5 non-native learners learning Mandarin as a second additional language with a focus on Chinese characters	36	1	0	37
Reframing migrant identities: Namelessness and impersonation in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names	35	2	0	37
'Who let out the secret?' - Sexual identity in Johann Nell's farm novel Sondag op 'n voëlplaas [Sunday on a bird farm] (2013)	15	11	10	36
'Wit' armoede en 'wit' bevoorregting in enkele Afrikaanse jeugromans	25	7	4	36
Empathy, enemies and present participles: A review of Justify the enemy: Becoming human in South Africa	31	4	0	35
Cavafy, Vos, Dangor: A belated reply to Phil van Schalkwyk	29	4	2	35
Brugbouer tussen generasies: Koos Roets se samewerkingsnetwerk in die Afrikaanse filmbedryf	19	12	3	34
A timely update to an important anthology of Afrikaans poems in translation	25	9	0	34
Die veld van gewone taal in Afrikaans oopgeskryf	31	3	0	34
Het afschalen van het Afrikaans: Een politieke stommiteit	13	16	4	33
Eerbetoon aan Pieter Fourie	30	3	0	33
An African's faith: Discourse and disclosure in selected works by Sindiwe Magona	26	4	2	32
Character (and absence) as a narrative key in installation art	30	2	0	32
Testing the impact of known variables on the attitudes held by Setswana L1-speaking university students towards their L1	21	8	2	31
Riglyne vir skryf	27	3	0	30
Treppie hou nie van kuiergaste nie': Xenia in Marlene van Niekerk se Triomf	14	11	5	30
The semantics of the aan-construction in 16th-century Dutch: A semasiological and onomasiological approach	20	6	4	30
Green postcolonialism in Etosha (Piet van Rooyen)	17	8	5	30
Corrigendum: Narrative materiality and practice: A study of born-free negotiation of periphery and centre	26	4	0	30
Envisioning dystopia: Eben Venter's Art of Darkness	27	0	1	28
A father's legacy ignites a daughter's fire	23	5	0	28
Gothic landscape, memory and food: A reading of Valerio Varesi's The Dark Valley	24	2	2	28
Psychological sequelae of political imprisonment, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder, in 491 Days by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela	26	2	0	28
Characterisation and social impact of urban youth languages on urban toponymy: S'ncamtho toponomastics in Bulawayo	24	3	0	27
A bad name is an omen: Stigmatising names amongst the Basotho	25	2	0	27
A blatant disregard of Section 6 (1) of the Constitution of South Africa by higher education institutions and language authorities: An onomastic discrepancy	20	4	3	27

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