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Theses and Dissertations (African Languages): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study s focal point is centered around the cultural practice of the custom of wife replacement/inheritance known as seyantlo in Setswana. This research was inspired by the fact that this practice is still in use in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The study analyses the treatment of traditional artefacts in Northern Sotho-English Dictionaries. It highlights that artefacts have not received proper treatment in such dictionaries. The end-user is often left unsatisfied ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The thesis focuses on culture change depicted in Sepedi literature. This is needed because of a great influence of missionaries and their writings that are reflected on indigenous writings of Bapedi people who wrote during ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The focus of this study is on solving non-equivalence problems when translating a highly technical text. This study investigates the term formation strategies used in providing the isiZulu term translation equivalents of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)When the origin and the development of the Sepedi literature is looked into, it emerged that the main effort was made by the missionaries. The Berlin Lutheran Church will never be forgotten for the contribution they made. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This thesis examines Southern Ndebele (not Northern Ndebele or Zimbabwean Ndebele), its history, standardisation and controversies in isiNdebele orthography and spelling from 1921 to 2010. In the late 1970s, the amaNala ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Essay writing is a stepping stone to broaden the learner s intellect because it helps him or her to think logically, to plan, create and synthesize information which has to be clearly understood by the reader. Brown (2002:1) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)There is a dearth of reading-material in Sepedi for children and youths because the written and reading language in Sepedi is relatively young. Any written texts for children and youths must therefore be in such a way as ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Throughout history, the process of translation has been approached from numerous perspectives, yet these can be distilled into two main categories: literal and free translation. In terms of translation strategy, the history ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The study seeks to evaluate Naga ga di etelane and examine the author’s craftsmanship in integrating theme and character. A closer analysis of the play indicates that the theme is encapsulated in three facets: • Exile ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2002)This study attempts to define more clearly the concepts 'flat character' and 'round character' by examining instances of Sepedi literature. Definitions provided by theorists are in most cases vague and may lead ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to describe how corpus-based Setswana dictionaries should be compiled. The challenge to the modern Setswana lexicographer is to compile very practical descriptive and user-friendly dictionaries. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-03-01)In his monograph on Sepedi/North Sotho, Groenewald (1993:19) describes Moses Josiah Madiba as one of the first authors of didactic or moral tales. He also points out that Madiba’s contribution includes other kinds of works, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-10)In this dissertation Lebopa' s two short stories entitled Ntlo ya monna yo mongwe and Bomahlwabadibona are compared with each other. Groenewald is the first person to have pointed out the importance of these two detective ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-13)In this thesis, an attempt is made to divide the Sepedi love story as 'light' reading matter into different subgenres. In order to do this, a distinction has to be made between 'light' and 'serious' reading matter. In ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-13)This research aims to investigate the development of the Sepedi detective story, and to classify existing works into appropriate sub-genres. The study will use the methods of comparison, grouping, description and interpretation. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-11)Language contact is a universal phenomenon found in bilingual or multilingual societies. It is the basic and distinct quality of every culture. Language is the means by which people communicate, express their points of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-10)The full text of this thesis/dissertation is not available online. Pending permission from the author/supervisor access may be provided on <a href="mailto:upetd@up.ac.za">request.</a> Read the abstract in the section 00front ...
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