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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"African Languages and Literatures"”.
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An examination of how loanwords in a corpus of spoken and written contemporary isiXhosa are incorporated into the noun class system of isiXhosa
… is a natural phenomenon for all of the world’s languages. This change can be viewed in terms of language contact, technological innovation and the adoption of new lifestyles. Whereas in the past isiXhosa, a Nguni language spoken in South Africa, borrowed words from both English and Afrikaans, …
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Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa
… with historical treatments of this phenomenon and debates its relevance and applicability to current scholarship on lexical borrowing. To ensure a wide range of data sources I used a corpus derived from interviews with 30 Xhosa speakers in Cape Town, as well as from three media sources: the …
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An analysis of the lyrics of the top 10 African language pop songs on Umhlobo Wenene in 2016
… of the top 10 songs (sung in an indigenous African language) aired on uMhlobo weNene (the national broadcast station for the Xhosa language) during 2016. Before the analysis of the songs I discuss various academic works on pop lyrics generally – ranging from a discussion of the production of …
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A study of transitivity in Xhosa
… The controversies surrounding transitivity and grammatical relations in general are noted. Special emphasis is put on Hopper and Thompson 1980's study. Different opinions from linguists across languages of the world as well as African linguists are assessed and evaluated. The debate revolves …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
Advertisements in African languages are generally confined to radio, and in that medium are factual, dialogic and direct. When used in television advertising, however, South Africa’s indigenous languages play a less informative role, being employed rather to index a concretised African essence, …
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A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)
… to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma over the …
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Eastern Shona : a comparative dialect study
… in the Eastern half of Rhodesia are described and compared. Each individual was selected as being representative of a number of localities described in the map below. The first part of the paper is concerned with the abstraction of comparable linguistic units from the dialects. These units are …
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The morphology of central Shona : with prefatory chapters on the phonetics and phonology
… chapters which deal with Central Shona phonetics and phonology. Of the Central Shona dialect-groups I have taken Zezuru as my standpoint. It is true that the main differences between the dialect-groups lie in phonetics and vocabulary and not in morphology; nevertheless the work has a Zezuru slant …
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
… variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education. The study is premised on the assumption that the learner's non-standard language from the home environment is not accommodated in the learning environment. The language used in the classroom is the standard …
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A Nama grammar : the noun-phrase
… the Nama language are the Damara (75 000) and the Nama (38 000). Certain smaller Bushman groups use Nama as well. Nama is the last survivor of the "classical Hottentott" (Khoekhoen) languages that is still spoken on a fairly extensive basis. The differences between the dialect spoken by the …
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The life and works of Isaac William(s) Wauchope
Bibliography: [355]-364.
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uPeter Tshobisa Mtuze neenoveli zakhe
… Peter Tshobiso Mtuze, pertaining to his life and works. Mtuze is one of the prominent writers of isiXhosa. He is a highly endowed writer who has produced books in all literature genres: drama, novel, short stories, poetry and essays. Some of his books were and are prescribed to be taught as …
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The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour
… irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The functions of Xhosa humour, both during and after apartheid, are examined, as is its role in challenging, contesting and reaffirming traditional notions of …
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
… human relations; l (iii) language has variations and that some variations enjoy higher status than others; (iv) people can do many things with words. Also reflected in the above utterances is one of the misconceptions about language which has, fortunately I think, been successfully disproved, …
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Slawe, Khoekhoen en Nederlandse Pidgins aan die Kaap, ca. 1590-1720 : 'n kritiese ondersoek na die sosiohistoriese grondslae van die konvergensieteorie oor die ontstaan van Afrikaans
… by the gradualists (John Singler, Jacques Arends and Philip Baker) and the Complementary theory of Salikoko Mufwene. These approaches stress teh use of socio-historical material. In line with this the work of historians on aspects of the early Cape society, ca. 1590-1720, especially the number, …
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An analysis of the challenges with respect to attaining equivalence in translation of literature pertaining to Sexually Transmitted Diseases from English into Xitsonga
… has been a practice that has assisted many languages the world over to develop to become languages of power. The purpose of this project was to elicit some translation challenges that translators face when translating from English into Xitsonga. It is not easy to translate a document in …
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Uncedile saule nemisebenzi yakhe
Bibliography: leaves 147-150.
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An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry
… dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link …
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A sociolectal and dialectal study of Southern Sotho in Lesotho
… we examine variation, in both speech and writing, in the South Sotho spoken in Lesotho. We indicate that the South Sotho used by a majority of speakers today shows a shift from both earlier and prescribed varieties. Open-ended questionnaires and informal conversations were used to …
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Educational implications of nonstandard varieties of Xhosa
… aims: (i) to find out if language interference and language change would cause the students to fail Xhosa. The response of schools to this situation will be investigated and an attempt will be made to understand the dichotomy that exists in spoken and written Xhosa. (ii) to look at the …
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