Aim & Scope
Multilingua is an international interdisciplinary journal aimed at the enhancement of cross-cultural understanding through the study of interlanguage communication. To this end it publishes articles in fields as diverse as: cross-cultural differences in linguistic politeness phenomena, variety in what is traditionally regarded as one culture, conversational style, linguistic description of nonstandard oral varieties of language, strategies for the organization of verbal interaction, intracultural linguistic variety, communication breakdown, translation and interpretation, information technology, methods of managing and using multilingual tools. Multilingua further publishes research notes, reports, review articles, short reviews, and announcements of upcoming events. Multilingua occasionally appears as a special issue, covering a specific topic in one of its fields. [1]
2024
What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms
Multilingua , 2024
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English
Multilingua , 2024
Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press
C Carne , M Oostendorp , A Baker
Multilingua , 2024