Staff Directory

Dr Chrismi-Rinda Loth
Position
Senior Researcher (2-15hpw)
Department
South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies
Address
Faculty of Humanities
Department of SA Sign Language and Deaf Studies
UFS
Telephone
0514012476
Office
Stef Coetzee Building 212
Information

Short CV

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-1729

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chrismi-rinda-loth-590636a 

2021–ongoing: Team lead - Signed place names projects

2011–ongoing: Facilitator - International Symposium on Place Names

2024–2027: International Council of Onomastic Sciences - Board Member and Vice-Chair of the ICOS Working Group on Toponymy

Publications

Du Plessis T & Loth C. 2025. Transforming the linguistic landscape of South Africa – more of the same? In: D Gorter & J Cenoz (eds). Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Loth C. 2022. Die linguistiese landskap/Linguistiese landskapstudies. In: W Carstens & T van Dyk (eds). Toegepaste Afrikaanse Taalkunde. Van Schaik Publishers: Pretoria.

 

Loth C. (Ed). 2022. Standardisation and the Wealth of Place Names: Aspects of a Delicate Relationship, conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Place Names. Bloemfontein: Sun Media Bloemfontein. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424970


Loth C, Kotzé G & De Lange J. 2022. Finding place names: Improving the digital documentation and accessibility of SASL place names. In: C Loth (ed). Standardisation and the wealth of place names: Aspects of a delicate relationship, conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Place Names. Bloemfontein: Sun Media Bloemfontein. 147-165. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424970


Loth C. (Ed). 2020. Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languagesconference proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Place Names. Bloemfontein: SunBonani. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424697

 

Loth C. 2019. Language attitudes and communication in the public space: A rural case study in South Africa. Alternation 24: 122-147. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2019/sp24.2a6

 

Loth C. 2017. Place names, place, and place-related identities in the linguistic landscape of rural South Africa. In: H Beyer, M Brenzinger, T du Plessis & PE Raper (eds). Critical Toponymy: Place Names in Political, Historical and Commercial Landscapes, conference proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Place Names. Bloemfontein: African Sun Media. 145-157. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424253


Loth C & Du Plessis T. 2017. Language visibility patterns of ergonyms in the linguistic landscape of a rural municipality in the southern Free State, South Africa. Nomina Africana 31(1): 11-27. https://doi.org/10.2989/NA.2017.31.1.2.1305

Loth C, Steenkamp J & Du Plessis T. 2013. Manual for Multilingual Signage/Handleiding vir Meertalige Tekens. Bloemfontein: SUN PReSS. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781920382506

Research

Area(s) of Interest

Toponymy

Linguistic Landscape Studies

Sociolinguistics

Language Policy and Planning

Courses Presented

Supervisor for SSLR 6808 (Hons. Research module)

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