Publication
Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English
Unuabonah, Foluke and Noloyiso Mtembu. 2023. Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English. Southern African Linguistics and Appli...
Project
The WetNet: Pathogen Mobility and Fluid Bonding in Twentieth Century Biomedicine
My research, based in close discourse analysis of primary and secondary medical and legal literatures, offers a history of the hepatitis B virus and vaccine development in the period from 1940 to 1988.
Project
Pragmatic Marker Borrowing in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study
There is extensive study of pragmatic marker borrowing from Asian languages by speakers of Asian Englishes, without a full exploration of pragmatic markers borrowed from African languages into African Englishes.