ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores the post-2000 popular song genre (expressed in Shona) in order to analyze its rhetorical potential in its appropriation as a medium for the construction and contestation of meanings ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores generic properties of hard news reports and editorials and the nature of
linguistic devices invoked by journalists to communicate issues of conflict in Uganda.
It describes the textual ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: “Unofananidza Jesu naKombayi here? (Lit. Are you comparing Jesus with Kombayi?) (Condolences on the death of Senator Patrick Kombayi, 28th July 2009, Appendix B4, line 350)
This Shona interjection during ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the applicability and suitability of the syntactic decomposition approach to account for the causative and anticausative alternation in Kikongo (Kizombo) in terms of the structural ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation is a comparative analysis of the structural (generic/cognitive) and ideological properties of Zimbabwean news reports in English, Shona and Ndebele, focusing specifically on the examination ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: If they don’t come out clearly to show us the true picture of different areas, it means that some areas that do not get the weather forecast cannot profit from their farming activities. This pushes our ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the cognitive, conceptual, linguistic, communicative and cultural nature of metaphors in Tshivenḓa in spoken discourse within the framework of conceptual metaphor theory extended ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 1.1 AIM OF THE RESEARCH
Relational nouns are those nouns which have the characteristic of
being related in some other way. These nouns also show us that
there is always equality and inequality in status ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This empirical study focuses – through the use of a descriptive survey – on the viability of integrating multimedia programmes in teaching Tswana at ten secondary schools in the Motheo District of the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a narration of personal experiences of the Northern Sotho people and their
way of doing their activities. The Northern Sotho people and their ways of doing things
have been characterized ...
Hlungwani, Madala Crous(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study investigates the nature of Xitsonga deverbatives that are derived from three types of
syntactic verbs, namely intransitive verbs, monotranstive verbs and ditransitive verbs .The aim is ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, the semantic and syntactic properties of deverbatives are
analyzed in the context of Generative Lexicon theory, which is a model of lexical
semantics.
The aim of the analysis ...
The Infinitive has received some attention in the recent past, beginning with the Government and Binding Theory with control theory and an Infinitive subject designation as PRO (see i.a. Chomsky 1981, 1982 and Haegaman ...
Du Plessis, Madele(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this thesis is to present an isiXhosa task-based syllabus design for police communication. The aim is to provide a theory-based rationale for syllabus design to teach English- and ...