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/Dr. Tendai Chirimaunga
Dr. Tendai Chirimaunga

Position: Research Fellow

Department: MSU National Language Institute
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Qualifications:

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Languages, Linguistics and Literature
  • Master of Arts in African Languages and Culture Degree
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours in African Languages and Culture Degree

Research Interests:

  • Lexicography and Corpus Building
  • Orthography Development
  • Translation and Terminology Development
  • Language Policy & Planning
  • Linguistics & Language Research
  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Publications:

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). Language-in-Education Policies and Minority Language Resuscitation Efforts in Zimbabwe. In Resuscitation of African Languages: Theorising the Battle against Sociocultural Genocide (pp. 167–192). Springer Nature.
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). Beyond Vandalism: Reclaiming Graffiti as Educational Praxis and Civic Dialogue in Gweru Urban. Walls That Teach: Graffiti, Education and the Pedagogy of Resistance, 134.

 JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Chirimaunga, T. (2023). The challenges in developing techno-scientific terminology using the current Shona orthography in Zimbabwe. Mgbakoigba: Journal of African Studies, 9(2).
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). Morphological causatives in ChiBarwe: An LMT analysis. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 19(1), 97–107.
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). The form and function of ChiBarwe applicative constructions: An LMT account. International Journal of Arts, Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS), 14(3).
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). Harnessing indigenous knowledge systems for climate resilience: The case of the Hwesa in Zimbabwe. Journal of Cultural Heritage and Development, 1(2), 128–140.
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2025). The syntax and semantics of reciprocal constructions in ChiBarwe: A Lexical Mapping Account. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 14(3), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.65085/2467-4745.1149.
  • Chirimaunga, T. (2026). Investigating tense and aspect marking in ChiBarwe. ANSU Journal of Arts and Social Sciences (ANSUJASS), 13(1), 42–57.

 

 

 

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