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Publication details [#59012]

Makoni, Busi. 2014. Feminizing linguistic human rights: use of isihlonipho sabafazi in the courtroom and intra-group linguistic differences. Journal of multicultural discourses 9 (1) : 27–43.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | law | linguistic human rights | respect | women's language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the Ndebele use of isihlonipho sabafazi (women's language of respect) in a courtroom scenery constitutes a kind of gender discrimination that adds to women's linguistic lockout and social marginalization.