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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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(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2009)This paper reflects on a telecollaborative project with second-year students of German between the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Colgate University (United States of America) in 2008. The project resulted ...
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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 Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...
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Die Auslotung des Menschenmöglichen : die Verschränkung von Sprache und Identität bei Hugo Loetscher (AOSIS Open Journals, 2015-11-30)Over the course of his career as a writer, Swiss intellectual Hugo Loetscher developed a fragmentary body of ideas on the themes of language and identity respectively. In this article, it is shown that these two themes ...
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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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(Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
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(Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)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, ...
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(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019)Please read abstract in article.
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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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(Routledge, 2019)The study explored how Spanish is learnt at a South African university by analysing students’ self-reports on the use of language learning strategies. A mixed methods design was used. Considering that learning a foreign ...
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