SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Shah, Sheena and Brenzinger, Matthias (2016) Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u //xa//xa N/uu. Cape Town: Centre for African Language Diversity.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Seals, Corinne A. and Shah, Sheena, eds. (2017) Heritage Language Policies around the World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Shah, Sheena and Brenzinger, Matthias, eds. (2016) Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, July 13-17, 2014, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. (Research in Khoisan Studies 34)

Hilton, Naomi, Arscott, Rachel, Barden, Katherine, Krishna, Arti, Shah, Sheena and Zellers, Meg, eds. (2007) CamLing2007: Proceedings of the 5th University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research.

Book Chapters

Shah, Sheena and Zappen-Thomson, Marianne (2017) 'German in Namibia.' In: Seals, Corinne A. and Shah, Sheena, (eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 128-147. (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Shah, Sheena and Jain, Ritu (2017) 'Gujarati in Singapore.' In: Seals, Corinne A. and Shah, Sheena, (eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 199-217. (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Seals, Corinne A. and Shah, Sheena (2017) 'Introduction: A focus on heritage language policy.' In: Seals, Corinne A. and Shah, Sheena, (eds.), Heritage Language Policies around the World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 1-9. (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Sands, Bonny, Chebanne, Andy and Shah, Sheena (2017) 'Hunting terminology in ǂHoan.' In: Fehn, Anne-Maria, (ed.), Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium, July 11-13, 2011, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 185-211. (Research in Khoisan Studies 36)

Shah, Sheena and Brenzinger, Matthias (2017) 'Writing for speaking: The N/uu orthography.' In: Jones, Mari C. and Mooney, Damien, (eds.), Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 109-125.

Shah, Sheena (2015) 'The role of language and culture in ethnic identity maintenance: The case of the Gujarati community in South Africa.' In: Zsiga, Elizabeth, Boyer, One Tlale and Kramer, Ruth, (eds.), Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, pp. 110-117. (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics)

Shah, Sheena (2014) 'Identity and belonging: The case of the Gujarati diaspora community in England, Singapore and South Africa.' In: Mawani, Sharmina and Mukadam, Anjoom, (eds.), Globalisation, Diaspora and Belonging: Exploring Transnationalism and Gujarati Identity. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, pp. 145-165.

Souag, Lameen (2007) 'The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber.' In: Hilton, Naomi, Arscott, Rachel, Barden, Katherine, Krishna, Arti, Shah, Sheena and Zellers, Meg, (eds.), CamLing 2007: Proceedings of the Fifth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research, pp. 237-244.

Journal Article

Gibson, Hannah, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz, Shah, Sheena and Taji, Julius (2019) 'Variation in double object marking in Swahili.' Swahili Forum, 26. pp. 142-165.

Shah, Sheena and Brenzinger, Matthias (2018) 'The Role of Teaching in Language Revival and Revitalization Movements.' Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 38. pp. 201-208.

Miller, Amanda, Scott, Abigail, Sands, Bonny and Shah, Sheena (2009) 'Rarefaction gestures and coarticulation in Mangetti Dune !Xung clicks.' Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009). pp. 2279-2282.

Miller, Amanda and Shah, Sheena (2009) 'The acoustics of Mangetti Dune !Xung clicks.' Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009). pp. 2283-2286.

Shah, Sheena (2008) 'Negotiating multilingual identities in interaction: The Südwesters of Namibia.' Achieving Multilingualism: Wills and Ways. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Multilingualism (ICOM). pp. 389-402.

Shah, Sheena (2007) 'German in a contact situation: The case of Namibian German.' eDUSA, 2 (2). pp. 20-45.

Book Reviews

Shah, Sheena (2015) 'Review of: "Ju/'hoan children's picture dictionary" by Tsemkgao Fanie Cwi and Kerry Jones, Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.' Social Dynamics, 41 (3). pp. 604-608.

Shah, Sheena (2012) 'Review of: “Discourses and identities in contexts of educational change: Contributions from the United States and Mexico” edited by G. López-Bonilla and K. Englander, New York, Peter Lang, 2011.' Language and Education, 26 (5). pp. 471-473.