@article{PetersCoetzeeVanRooy2020,
  author    = {Peters, Arne and Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan},
  title     = {Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth},
  series = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science},
  volume    = {31},
  journal   = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0936-5907},
  doi       = {10.1515/cog-2019-0101},
  pages     = {579 -- 608},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{CoetzeeVanRooyPeters2021,
  author    = {Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan and Peters, Arne},
  title     = {A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English},
  series = {Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa},
  volume    = {52},
  journal   = {Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1022-8195},
  doi       = {10.1080/10228195.2021.1942167},
  pages     = {3 -- 28},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in their repertoires. In this study, we implement a "portrait-corpus approach" (Peters and Coetzee-Van Rooy 2020) to investigate the conceptualisations of the languages Afrikaans and English in 105 language portraits. In this approach, we use participants' reflections about their placement of the two languages on a human silhouette as a linguistic corpus. Relying on quantitative and qualitative analyses using WordSmith, Statistica and Atlas.ti, our study shows that Afrikaans is mainly conceptualised as a language that is located in more peripheral areas of the body (for example, the hands and feet) and, hence, is perceived as less important in participants' repertoires. The central location of English in the head reveals its status as an important language in the participants' multilingual repertoires. We argue that these conceptualisations of Afrikaans and English provide additional insight into the attitudes towards these languages in South Africa.},
  language  = {en}
}