Prof Mantoa Motinyane is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department in the Arts and Humanities Faculty at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS). She holds a PhD and an MA in Formal Linguistics from the University of Florida, USA and a BA (Hons) in African Languages and Linguistics from the University of Cape Town. Her primary area of research is psycholinguistics. Prior to joining UWC, Prof Motinyane headed a Language Communication Project housed in the Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. She also taught isiXhosa language and literature for many years. She has published journal articles, book chapters and edited books in both her primary and secondary areas of research.