All Stories

  1. Youth language in Africa: Introduction to the special issue

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  2. Metaphors and their link to generational peer groups and popular culture in African youth languages

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  3. “They Even Speak Tsotsitaal with Their Teachers at School”: The Use (and Abuse) of African Urban Youth Languages in Educational Contexts

    Article • Africa Education Review, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  4. Metaphor in South African Tsotsitaal

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  5. ‘The thing that kill us’: student perspectives on language support in a South African university

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  6. English and the academy for African skilled migrants: The impact of English as an ‘Academic lingua franca’

    Article • July 2014, Emerald

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  7. English and the academy for African skilled migrants: The impact of English as an ‘Academic lingua franca’

    Article • July 2014, Emerald

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  8. ‘When you hang out with the guys they keep you in style’: The case for considering style in descriptions of South African tsotsitaals

    Article • Language Matters, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ellen Hurst

  9. Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Ellen Hurst, Rajend Mesthrie

  10. Tsotsitaal, global culture and local style: identity and recontextualisation in twenty‐first century South African townships

    Article • Social Dynamics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ellen Hurst