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Lexicography, particularly of the Setswana language. I am interested in the corpus use for the selection of dictionary entries and analysis of meaning using concordance lines and concgrams.
Genre and text type analysis: the problem of how to determine that certain words belong to a specific genre or text type.
Statistical analysis of language
Corpus design and compilation of different languages and how the different components are included.
Word frequency distribution across language varieties
Measuring corpus similarity and differences.
Language on the web
The study of chatsite data.
The study of sms text.
The study of chatsite language use.
Setswana personal names analysis.
The study of Setswana rhyming patterns.
STUDENT SUPERVISION
I am happy to provide supervision of Masters or PhD research on any of the areas that I have listed above or related linguistic areas. I may also be contacted for examining graduate students on any of these areas.
I have or I am supervising the following supervised the following
Supervisor of Mr. Othusitse Phew MSc with Prof Heiko Schroeder. (Appointed June 2014). ON-GOING Supervisor of Mr Michael Ochu’s PhD thesis: Multiword Expressions in Igbo. ON-GOING (App: 9 April 2014) I am a supervisor of Mr Othusitse Sebangane’s MA thesis. ON-GOING. I was appointed a member of the supervision committee of Mr. Agreement Ndlovu (6 Aug. 2013). ON-GOING. I supervised Balibi Modibetsane’s MA thesis: Wordhood in text messages (2009/2010). COMPLETED I was a member of the supervisory team of Mr. Ernest Chirume’s MA thesis: Texts in dialogue: Intertextuality in advertising in Botswana (2010/2011) . COMPLETED I was a member of the supervisory team of Mrs Chipo Phili’s MA thesis: Newspaper Representations of Women in Botswana: The Case of the Sunday Standard (2010/2011). COMPLETED Supervisor of Mr Michael Ochu’s MA thesis: The Discourse of Terrorism: Terrorist Terminologies in Online Nigerian Newspapers (2011/2012). COMPLETED
Supervisor of Mr. Othusitse Phew MSc with Prof Heiko Schroeder. (Appointed June 2014). ON-GOING
Supervisor of Mr Michael Ochu’s PhD thesis: Multiword Expressions in Igbo. ON-GOING (App: 9 April 2014)
I am a supervisor of Mr Othusitse Sebangane’s MA thesis. ON-GOING.
I was appointed a member of the supervision committee of Mr. Agreement Ndlovu (6 Aug. 2013). ON-GOING.
I supervised Balibi Modibetsane’s MA thesis: Wordhood in text messages (2009/2010). COMPLETED
I was a member of the supervisory team of Mr. Ernest Chirume’s MA thesis: Texts in dialogue: Intertextuality in advertising in Botswana (2010/2011) . COMPLETED
I was a member of the supervisory team of Mrs Chipo Phili’s MA thesis: Newspaper Representations of Women in Botswana: The Case of the Sunday Standard (2010/2011). COMPLETED
Supervisor of Mr Michael Ochu’s MA thesis: The Discourse of Terrorism: Terrorist Terminologies in Online Nigerian Newspapers (2011/2012). COMPLETED
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Welcome! Amogêlêsêga! Professor Thapelo J. Otlogetswe is Associate Professor of linguistics and lexicography at the University of Botswana. He is a recipient of the Presidential Order of Honour and the foremost expert on corpus linguistics and lexicography of the Setswana language. His research is in lexical computing and corpus lexicography, in particular, that of Setswana. His research includes work on Setswana names, rhyming patterns in Setswana, genre and text type analysis. He has been involved in the development of Setswana spellcheckers and the compilation of a multi-million token Setswana corpus. He has compiled a number of dictionaries including "Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana", "English-Setswana Dictionary", "Oxford English Setswana Setswana English School Dictionary" and 'Poeletso-medumo ya Setswana: a Setswana Rhyming dictionary'. He has also co-authored a Setswana orthography book: 'Mokwalo o o lolameng wa Setswana'. He led the breakthrough translation work on the Setswana Google Search, OpenOffice and Firefox Setswana Spell-checkers. He is a member of the African Academy of Languages, African Association of Lexicography and sits on the editorial boards of Lexikos and Marang Journals.
Presidential Order of Honour Prof. Otlogetswe is the recipient of the 2013 Presidential Order of Honour (P.H.), being an honour awarded for efficient and devoted service to the Republic of Botswana.
Prof. Otlogetswe is the recipient of the 2013 Presidential Order of Honour (P.H.), being an honour awarded for efficient and devoted service to the Republic of Botswana.
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