At a time when social sciences are no longer beyond question and criticism, it is reasonable to believe that researchers must spend their resources not only on producing knowledge but also on examining the type of knowledge ...

NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2013 – is a novel in which the leitmotif of (re)naming associates the trope of migration to ...

In Herta Muller's book of collages Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen, a number of themes can be identified. Stretching from the animal and plant world through seasons and snow to human beings like father and mother, ...

On July 7th 1914, the British government requested general Louis Botha to take over the German radio transmitters in Luderitz and Swakopmund. The German forces, unable to withhold the attack any longer, surrendered on July ...

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 ...

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 ...

Various writers and survivors have offered literary responses to the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. In 1998, a group of African intellectuals, mostly non-Rwandans, of whom two were female authors, participated in a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...