OpenUCT Home
→
Theses / Dissertations
→
PhD / Doctoral
→
Browsing PhD / Doctoral by Department

Browsing PhD / Doctoral by Department "Linguistics"

Now showing items 1-20 of 25

Next Page

A comparative analysis of metaphorical expressions used by rural and urban Ndebele speakers: the contribution of S'ncamtho

Author: Ndlovu, Sambulo Date: 2018 This thesis explores language expansion and change through metaphorical expressions that originate with urban youth varieties. It focuses on the impact of S'ncamtho, an Ndebele-based urban youth variety of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe along the ... Read more
Art in ethno-medicine : a case study of Juogi (Mysticism among the Luo people) in South Nyanza district of western Kenya

Author: Ogembo, Jack E Odongo Date: 2005 This ethnographic study is intended to give voice to the feeling of those who value and depend on indigenous medicine and to examine how it has worked for the Luo. In this thesis we investigate how one acquired the skills of becoming a medicine ... Read more
Ateso Grammar: A descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic Language

Author: Barasa, David Date: 2017 This study discusses the structure of Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language. Based on interview and recorded data from fieldwork conducted in both Uganda and Kenya, where Ateso is spoken, the study provides the first comprehensive description ... Read more
A case study in language contact : English, Kiswahili and Luhyia amongst the Luhyia people of Kenya

Author: Shivachi, Calebi I Date: 1999 The aim of this research is to provide some ground work in the study of Luhyia socio-linguistics. A fair amount of research on indigenous forms of English has been conducted in South Africa as well as West Africa. According to Schmied (1991), ... Read more
A comparative analysis of the phonology and morpho-syntax of Cisukwa, Cindali and Cilambya

Author: Mtenje, Atikonda Date: 2016 This PhD thesis describes and compares the grammars of Cisukwa, Cindali and Cilambya (SuNdaLa) - three closely related varieties spoken in the northern region of Malawi. The analysis of the language data collected in this research project ... Read more
A comparative study of grammaticalisation in Xhosa and Swahili : (some aspects of grammaticalisation in a southern Bantu language, Xhosa, with comparisons to similar processes in Swahili).

Author: Lloyd, David Julian Date: 2000 Includes bibliography. Read more
Computer language support programs for tertiary students : a contribution to educational linguistics

Author: Jeffery, Beth Date: 2001 Bibliography leaves 240-258. Read more
'Cutting' and 'breaking' events in Akan

Author: Agyepong, Dorothy Pokua Date: 2017 This study investigates the grammar and semantics of verbs that describe separation events in Asante Twi (Akan), a Kwa (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Ghana. It adopts a constructionist approach combined with a 'monosemic bias' perspective ... Read more
The Development of English as as second language at four urban Zimbabwean Schools

Author: Mlambo, Muzi Hlambamuni Feyani Date: 2002 Read more
English and Afrikaans in District Six : a sociolinguistic study

Author: McCormick, Kay Date: 1989 This is a descriptive study of the use of English and Afrikaans in Cape Town's District Six - a large inner-city neighbourhood, first settled in the 1840s and, by the implementation of a series of laws, depopulated and almost entirely razed ... Read more
Expanding notions of 'standard' English : the South African Parliament as a case study

Author: Hibbert, Liesel Date: 2000 Bibliography: leaves 204-214. Read more
Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English

Author: Chevalier, Alida Date: 2016 The South African Chain Shift involved the raising of the short front vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers ... Read more
A history of the Bhojpuri (or "Hindi") language in South Africa

Author: Mesthrie, Rajend Date: 1985 Although Indian languages have existed in South Africa for the last 125 years, there are no academic studies of any of them - of their use in South Africa, their evolution and current decline. Many misconceptions persist concerning their ... Read more
Language : a complex-systems approach

Author: Steyn, Jacques Date: 1994 Mainstream twentieth-century linguistics, a segregational approach, cannot explain the most obvious characteristics of language. The reasons for this are investigated. It is concluded that linguistics suffers from an incoherent conceptual ... Read more
Language maintenance and shift among the Rehoboth Basters of Namibia ca. 1868-2008

Author: Louw, Anna Magdalena Date: 2010 The main theme of the thesis is language endangerment, which represents a subfield of enquiry in sociolinguistics. The language under investigation is Afrikaans in its setting in Rehoboth, Namibia. Afrikaans was maintained as mother tongue ... Read more
Oral narratives of personal experience : a developmental sociolinguistic study of Cape Flats children

Author: Malan, Karen Cecile Date: 2000 Bibliography: leaves 268-282. Read more
Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.

Author: Morreira, Kirsten Lee Date: 2012 This study is based on interviews and recorded word-lists from 44 young (under 25) black South Africans who have been educated in the former white school system, studying at the University of Cape Town. It considers their life experiences, ... Read more
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variation in a Rural African Community

Author: Yohana, Rafiki Date: 2009 This study mainly investigates whether language variation due to sociolinguistic stratification in Western urban speech communities is similar to that in rural African communities, using as a case study the multilingual Chasu of Same district ... Read more
Sociophonetics and class differentiation: A study of working- and middle- class English in Cape Town's coloured community

Author: Toefy, Tracey Lynn Date: 2014 This thesis provides a detailed acoustic description of the phonetic variation and changes evident in the monophthongal vowel system of Coloured South African English in Cape Town. The changes are largely a result of South Africa's post-apartheid ... Read more
Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal

Author: Hurst, Ellen Date: 2008 The thesis applies a social constructionist framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to demonstrate that while Tsotsitaal was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually ... Read more

Now showing items 1-20 of 25

Next Page

Browse

All of OpenUCT
This Collection
- By Date
- Authors
- Titles
- Subjects
- Department
- Faculty