Ukunika ingxelo kwimeko yamava obomi esixhoseni

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dc.contributor.advisorDlali, M.
dc.contributor.authorLugalo, Noxolo Veronica
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of African Languages.
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-13T10:11:24Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:40:02Z
dc.date.available2009-02-13T10:11:24Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:40:02Z
dc.date.issued2009-03
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to explore and encourage the use of accounts in the sense that events occur in our societies that compel those who are victims of those circumstances to give account of their experiences. The theme of this study is based on statements about events such as abuse, cheating, death and being HIV positive and on answers to such events. In respect of the theory of image restoration, Benoit (1995) discusses why people should give account of their wrongdoings and narrate such events. He states that language and communication practitioners as well as the great philosophers in communities have an interest in how image restoration works in our communities. This research focuses on the Benoit theory. People give account in everyday life of their wrongdoings or of accusations of wrongdoing, since this helps to restore their reputations. The focus of this study is on the use of accounts in Xhosa culture as a strategy in the narration of life stories. According to Benoit (1995), accounts are excuses and justifications that are responses to offence or failure events such as requests for an account of the violation of a norm, of the rebuke of another person and of the expression of surprise or disgust at certain behaviours. This study illustrates how to give account of your own experience. In this regard, Gergen (1994) states that the term “self-narrative” refers to an individual’s account of the relationship of self-relevant events across time, while White and Epston (1990) state that people give meaning to their lives and relationships by narrating stories about their experience of life.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2075
dc.language.isoxh
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectAccount givingen
dc.subjectAccounts of wrongdoingen
dc.subjectBenoit theoryen
dc.subjectDissertations -- African languagesen
dc.subjectTheses -- African languagesen
dc.subject.lcshBiographyen
dc.subject.lcshImage reconstructionen
dc.subject.lcshXhosa (African people) -- Biographyen
dc.subject.lcshPsychology -- Biographical methodsen
dc.titleUkunika ingxelo kwimeko yamava obomi esixhosenixh
dc.typeThesis
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