Position
Senior Researcher (2-15hpw)
Department
South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies
Unit for Language Facilitation
Office
Stef Coetzee Building 212
2022–current: Senior Researcher
2021–current: Associate Editor South African Journal of African Languages
2016: PhD Linguistics (UFS) The linguistic landscape as construct of the public space: A case study of post-apartheid rural South Africa
2016–2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2016–2019: Researcher
2011–2021: Facilitator International Symposium on Place Names
Loth C. (forthcoming). Die linguistiese landskap/Linguistiese landskapstudies. In: W Carstens & T van Dyk (eds). Toegepaste Afrikaanse Taalkunde. Van Schaik Publishers: Pretoria.
Loth C. (Ed). 2020. Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages, conference 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(2): 122-147. DOI: 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. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Place Names. ISBN: 9781928424246
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. DOI: 10.2989/NA.2017.31.1.2.1305
Kriel M, Loth C & Webb V. 2017. In honour of Theodorus du Plessis. Language Matters, 46:3, 319-324, DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2015.1116136
Loth C, Steenkamp J & Du Plessis T. 2013. Manual for Multilingual Signage/Handleiding vir Meertalige Tekens. Bloemfontein: SUN PReSS. ISBN: 1920382496, 9781920382490
Kotze C & Du Plessis T. 2010. Language visibility in the Xhariep – a comparison of the linguistic landscape of three neighbouring towns. Language Matters, 41(1): 72-96. DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2010.494682
2021–ongoing: Survey of South African Sign Language Place Names
2020–ongoing: South African Place Names App (OurPlaces)
2008–Ongoing: Linguistic Landscapes of rural South Africa
2008–2013: MIDP (Multilingual Information Development Programme)
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Landscape Studies
Language Policy and Planning
Toponymy
Deaf Studies
SSLR 6808 (Hons. Research module)
2013–2018: Facilitator Annual Philippolis Multilingual Public Speaking Competition