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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Modern European Languages) by Issue Date
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(University of Pretoria, 2001)The focus of this thesis is Pieter-Dirk Uys's use of the rhetorical trope chiasmus as a satirical tool, an aspect of his work that has, to date, received little attention. The multiple nuances of 'chiasmus' are examined, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004-02-18)This thesis will concentrate on previous and current learning methods of French as a foreign language. This understanding will help to plot the rapidness of evolution within foreign-language teaching. In conjunction with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-14)This study investigates different ways of efficiently educating learners to become bi- or multilingual. In the introduction relevant background information concerning the definition of bilingualism is given and related ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-22)The aim of this study is to prove that there is a need for innovative teaching methods in the foreign language classroom. This need arises from the fact that traditional and more conventional teaching methods tend to focus ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-11-09)The female hero has been marginalized through history, to the extent that theorists, from Plato and Aristotle to those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, state that a female hero is impossible. This thesis argues ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-11-09)Poststructuralism may be broadly characterized as a move away from traditional Western foundationalist thinking. Such thinking is exemplified by post-enlightenment transcendentalism, humanism and subject-centredness. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-02-11)The aim of this study consists of two major parts: in the first place, the goal is to show to which extent the reading behavioral patterns as well as the reading methods of children and the youth have changed and developed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-11-30)Please read the abstract after page x in the 00front part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-09)This thesis argues that the human mind recognizes within the natural world a dimension of reality that is beyond its knowledge and understanding. Nature confronts it with an ineffable power the source of which is often ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-09)This dissertation endeavours to come to an understanding of adolescents' attitudes and perceptions with regard to recreational reading. The scope of research in the discipline of Children's Literature is a clear indication ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-15)La langue française, comme toutes les autres langues du monde, connaît une évolution remarquable aussi bien en France qu’ailleurs ; évolution que les Sociolinguistes africains ont très souvent considérée comme une forme ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-26)Rooted in his painfully fractured identity as an Arab-speaking Jew in the (then) French colonial Tunisia, Albert Memmi' s novels and essays evolve in a single autobiographical space. The author will explore and remodel ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-04-17)At a nexus between translation studies and didactics, the teaching of sight translation within the parameters of a foreign language course has as its primary aim to improve the communication skills of foreign language ...
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Die Verwandtschaft zwischen Afrikaans und den niederdeutschen Dialekten Norddeutschlands (Deutsch) (University of Pretoria, 2008-10-27)Als ich vor vielen Jahren - 1940 - meine erste Vorlesung über Afrikaans an der Friedrich-Wilhelrns-Universität zu Berlin hörte, war ich höchst erstaunt über die heimatlichen klänge die mir aus dieser Fremdsprache entgegen ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-15)The life of Henri-Pierre Roché (1879 – 1959), art collector, journalist, writer, finds its singular rhythm in a continual meandering between dispersion and the search for unifying harmony. This dispersion – moral and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-05-17)The basic question underlying this thesis concerns the identification of the fundamental elements constituting the Western religious tradition and the way in which these elements manifest themselves in the writings of ...
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The challenge of multilingualism in a partial translation of the play, requiem for the Last Kaiser (University of Pretoria, 2013)Requiem for the Last Kaiser by the Cameroonian playwright Bate Besong, is a play characterised by singular translational challenges. These challenges range from the presence of many different languages in the text to the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Immer wieder wird auf das besondere Potenzial der Literatur hingewiesen, in Lernenden „Neugier und Lernlust“ zu wecken (Weinrich 1981) und sie emotional zu berühren und zum kreativen Schaffen anzuregen, das an die Interessen ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This dissertation examines the role of language directionality in conference interpret-ing in South Africa with the purpose of highlighting the need for bidirectional inter-preting in a South African context. Western ...
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