Academic Staff

Dr Soyiso Khetoa is the Head of the department. The department support or provides supervision for PhD studies in the areas of sociolinguistics, literature, onomastics, language in education, linguistics, and African media. For literary studies, supervision is provided by Prof. Innocentia Mhlambi, sociolinguistics and onomastics by Dr Soyiso Khetoa, linguistics by Dr Kgomotso Theledi, African Media by Mr Lwazi Mjiyako.

Research interests:

• Dr Khetoa (Sociolinguistics: multilingualism, translanguaging, language attitudes, reintellectualisation of African languages, second language acquisition, and onomastics),
• Prof. Mhlambi (Literary theories, literary criticism, cultural production, narratology, film criticism),
• Mr Mjiyako (second language acquisition, sociology of text production in African languages, political economy of African languages in media).