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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Modern European Languages) by Title
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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, 2020)This research deals with the condition of Moroccan women as represented in The Sand Child (1985) and The Sacred Night (1987). In The Sand Child, the storyteller narrates the life of a girl named Ahmed, whose father, ...
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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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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, 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, 2013)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study investigates the internal textual structure (cohesion) of Hugo Loetscher’s novel, Der Immune (1975/1985). The secondary literature (in particular Nigg (1992: 12), So nicka (2009: 109) and various reviews) ...
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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, 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, 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, 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, 2017)Contemporary society has seen the English language rise to great heights. It has become the most important language in trade, industry and education. In South Africa, speakers of Indigenous African Languages (IALs) consider ...
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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, 2019)No abstract
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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, 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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(University of Pretoria, 2023-01-31)This PhD thesis titled La Traduction dans l’enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère en Afrique du Sud (Translation in the Teaching/Learning of French as a Foreign Language in South Africa) examines the role ...
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Le rôle de la femme disparue dans deux oeuvres de Patrick Modiano : Voyage de noces et Dora Bruder (University of Pretoria, 2017)The aim of this project is to investigate the importance accorded to the personage of the missing woman in two texts by Patrick Modiano: Voyage de noces (1990) and Dora Bruder (1997). Where necessary, allusions to other ...
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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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(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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