Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie

University of Cape Town

H-index: 43

Africa-South Africa

About Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie, With an exceptional h-index of 43 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Cape Town, specializes in the field of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, English language, Language in South Africa.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Uncovering a consonant chain shift in Gujarati

Speaking Xhosa multilingually: A study of contact innovations among Xhosa speakers in Soweto

Sociophonetics and South African studies: Focus on ethnicity

Investigating possible changes to the trap vowel in Black South African English: A (post) Bobdian analysis

Migrants and urban contact sociolinguistics in Africa and Europe

Encounters with Xenophobia: Language Learning Experiences of Cameroonian and Nigerian Migrants in South Africa

Indenture in Language: The Words the Workers Made

Rajend Mesthrie Information

University

Position

Linguistics Section

Citations(all)

8929

Citations(since 2020)

3023

Cited By

7482

hIndex(all)

43

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

110

i10Index(since 2020)

56

Email

University Profile Page

University of Cape Town

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Rajend Mesthrie Skills & Research Interests

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

English language

Language in South Africa

Top articles of Rajend Mesthrie

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Rajend Mesthrie

Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi

2024/12/31

Uncovering a consonant chain shift in Gujarati

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus

Rajend Mesthrie

2023/11/1

Speaking Xhosa multilingually: A study of contact innovations among Xhosa speakers in Soweto

Language Dynamics and Change

Rajend Mesthrie

Lulu Mfazwe-Mojapelo

2023/11/1

Sociophonetics and South African studies: Focus on ethnicity

Rajend Mesthrie

Alida Chevalier

Yolandi Ribbens-Klein

Tracey Toefy

Bruce Wileman

2023

Investigating possible changes to the trap vowel in Black South African English: A (post) Bobdian analysis

Rajend Mesthrie

Yolandi Ribbens-Klein

Aloysius Ngefac

Hans-Georg Wolf

Thomas Hoffmann

2022

Migrants and urban contact sociolinguistics in Africa and Europe

Rajend Mesthrie

2022/3/30

Encounters with Xenophobia: Language Learning Experiences of Cameroonian and Nigerian Migrants in South Africa

Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa

Rajend Mesthrie

Doreen Nchang

Chimaobi Onwukwe

2022/3/1

Indenture in Language: The Words the Workers Made

Journal of Natal and Zulu History

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/1/1

Práticas de língua e mudança linguística entre migrantes transnacionais para a África do Sul, 1990-2020: uma pesquisa

Revista da Anpoll

Rajend Mesthrie

Heather Brookes

2021/9/27

Tsotsitaals, urban vernaculars, and contact linguistics

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/9/9

A chain shift in Indo-Aryan, with special reference to Gujarati dialects

Language Dynamics and Change

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/12/10

Youth language practices and urban language contact in Africa

Rajend Mesthrie

Ellen Hurst-Harosh

Heather Brookes

2021/9/9

Contacts and contexts: Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/11

Colony, post‐colony and world Englishes in the South African context

World Englishes

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/3

3 Contesting Stereotypes Northern and Language, Body, and Belonging Southern Perspectives

Spaces of Multilingualism

Rajend Mesthrie

Toril Opsahl

Unn Røyneland

2021/10/17

Sociolinguistic patterns and names: A variationist study of changes in personal names among Indian South Africans

Language in Society

Rajend Mesthrie

2021/2

Contesting Stereotypes: Language, Body, and Belonging–Northern and Southern Perspectives

Rajend Mesthrie

Toril Opsahl

Unn Røyneland

2021/10/17

Remembering Tom MacArthur and David Graddol: A tribute to two past editors of English Today

English Today

Rajend Mesthrie

2020/12

More eyes on COVID-19: Perspectives from Linguistics-Pay attention to how people are talking about the pandemic in different languages

South African Journal of Science

Rajend Mesthrie

2020/8

Contact and African Englishes

The handbook of language contact

Rajend Mesthrie

2020/7/28

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