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Focus markers that link topic and comment [PDF]
, 2009 This talk deals with the interdependence between the pragmatic categories topic and focus as displayed by certain alleged focus marking particles of some West African ...
Schwarz, Anne
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The technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts
Literator, 2005 This article aims at investigating and explaining the application of the technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts. Five kinds of flashback are distinguished, namely external retrospection, internal retrospection, mixed ...
M.J. Mojalefa, R.S. Phala
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Zenobia’s story: how a victim of abuse uses isiXhosa to account for her actions
Literator, 2008 This article explores the theoretical work in articulating the motivations and conditions for account-giving in isiXhosa in relation to image restoration.
M. Dlali, S. Mokapela
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Code switching in contemporary isiZulu performance poetry
Literator, 2021 Recent developments in isiZulu poetry have been marked by an emergence of performance poets whose poems have gained popularity with younger audiences.
Bongephiwe Dlamini Myeni +1 more
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Literator, 2010 This article examines the array of macro and micro historical factors that stirred historical agency in the 1970s war against colonial settlerism as depicted in selected liberation war fiction.
I. Muwati, D.E. Mutasa, M.L. Bopape
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A multimodal analysis of Piggyvest’s animated advertisement videos
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 This study examines the persuasive strategies in selected animated advertisement videos by Piggyvest, the first and one of the fastest-growing online savings platforms in Nigeria, whose modus operandi is quite different from those of the conventional ...
Odedeyi Toluwani Deborah +1 more
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African Languages and African Literature
UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011 In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Eme, CA, Mbagwu, DU
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A philosophical interpretation of the significance of oral forms in I. Mabasa’s novel Mapenzi (1999)
Literator, 2008 The article critically analyses the use of Shona oral art forms in I. Mabasa’s novel “Mapenzi” (“Mad people”/“Foolish people”). It departs from the realisation that the writer identifies with Shona people’s oral experiences in the form of songs, “bembera”
D.E. Mutasa, I. Mutawi
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, 2017 Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017 Literature helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. It is a part of education, which broadens one’s mind about how to understand, transfer knowledge and provide meaningful and authentic learning. Thus, this article aims to highlight how
Nozuko Gxekwa, Nomsa Satyo
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