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Theses and Dissertations (Modern European Languages): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Conference interpreting in general and simultaneous interpreting in particular are practice-based activities. In training future interpreters, conference interpreter trainers rely heavily on practical exercises that enable ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The geographical locations of foreign language French learners are as diverse as their needs. Consequently, teaching material in any French foreign language classroom should be revised on a regular basis. In 2012, a newly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study consists of a comparative analysis of two novels (Une si longue lettre and Un chant écarlate) written by the famous female African writer Mariama Bâ and their English translations (So long a letter and Scarlet ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The conventional understanding of the liaison interpreter views the professional as a language broker between two or more individuals not speaking the same language. The manner in which this language gap is bridged, ...
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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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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, 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, 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, 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, 2006-11-30)Please read the abstract after page x in the 00front part of this document
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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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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, 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, 2005-10-14)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, 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, 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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