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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This is a critical and comparative study that examines the blossoming and maturation of the Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) Young Adult (YA) novella from the canon of novels in that language. The periods under examination ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study examines Mologadi Ngwana’ Magolego Sepedi tale Mo_emane wa moimana as an example of fantasy. Fantasy as a genre creates a headache for theorists, because they struggle to distinguish this genre from other types ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study demonstrates one possible way of countering social stratification and creating an inclusive South African identity–renewing the South African national narrative to include the narratives of the people groups ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The aim of this study is to compare and contrast isiZulu and Sepedi detective narratives, a genre which has not been fully embraced by literary scholars and authors in the African languages. The intention is to compare and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-08-31)Terminology development plays a significant role in the development of a language. IsiNdebele, as a South African language in its developmental stages, has been the focus of a great deal of attention since the dawning of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2019)Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2019)This article reports on the analysis of three major markers of necessity in Luganda, i.e. the modal auxiliaries -téekw- and -lina and the verbal prefix -andi-. On the basis a 4-million-word corpus it is argued that, overall, ...
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Determining a Zulu core vocabulary for children who use augmentative and alternative communication (Taylor and Francis, 2019)Vocabulary selection is an important aspect to consider when designing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for children who have not yet developed conventional literacy skills. AAC team members have ...
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(UKM Press, 2019-11)In an earlier publication it was claimed that there is no useful relationship between Swahili-English dictionary look-up frequencies and the occurrence frequencies for the same wordforms in Swahili-English corpora, at least ...
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(University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press, 2020-04)Although viewed (and dismissed) by many as primarily a tool for communication, language (and literature) cannot be understood only in relation to what it communicates. A study of how it is shaped uncovers the social forces ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-04-30)Tlhotlhomisi e e ikaegile ka lemorago la botshelo jwa ga mokwadi Melato Recias Malope, modibelapuo yo o itsegeng wa puo ya Setswana, morutabana le mokwadi yo o manontlhotlho wa ditlhangwa le dibuka tsa thutapuo. O kwadile ...
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(Universidad do Vale de Rio dos Sinos, 2019-09)In this contribution Rove Chishman and Bruna da Silva present questions to the President of the European Association for Lexicography, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. In answering, G-M de Schryver calls a spade a spade: No, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study aims to investigate two Sepedi ballads, Moganedi’s ‘Maletsoge’ (1985) and Matome Fela’s ‘Sebilwane’ (1961) to consider their style and genre. The investigation starts with a review of prior studies of the Sepedi ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2018)This article is the third instalment in a trilogy of studies that deal with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography as applied to Lusoga. Having dealt with corpus-building in Part 1, and macro-structural aspects in Part 2, we now ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2018)This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicogra-phy, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2018)This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two ...
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(Routledge, 2019)Serudu le Groenewald ke borateori ba babedi bao ba ilego ba leka go laetša thulaganyo ya epiki ya Sesotho sa Leboa. Le ge go le bjalo, borateori ba ba a fapana ge ba hlaloša dikgopolo tša epiki, seretotumišo, seretokanegelo ...
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(Routledge, 2019)Indigenous societies that are steeped in patriarchy have various avenues through which they deal with the abuse characteristic of relations in some of these communities. One such route is songs which allow women to voice ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This research was encouraged by the growing trend of migration that not only South Africa is facing but the world in general. French-speaking asylum seekers who require interpretation services constitute the subject of ...
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