https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/2877 2026-06-19T17:32:08Z 2026-06-19T17:32:08Z Ndlovu, Anthea Lucy https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32533 2026-06-03T10:44:55Z 2025-10-11T00:00:00Z

Unveiling the shifting landscape : a sociolinguistic exploration of women’s representation in Northern Sotho Literature through the lens of written sources Ndlovu, Anthea Lucy The purpose of this research study is to conduct a comprehensive sociolinguistic analysis of the portrayal of women in Northern Sotho literature, charting the evolution of their representation by examining various written resources. In particular, the sociolinguistic analysis of these literature works can uncover hidden narratives of women’s experiences and roles in society. Recognising the powerful role literature plays in shaping societal perceptions, this research endeavours to shed light on the changing dynamics of gender representation in the Northern Sotho cultural context. By employing a multidisciplinary approach, combining sociolinguistics, literary analysis, and feminist theory, this study seeks to uncover nuanced insights into the evolving status, roles, and narratives surrounding women in Northern Sotho literature. The researcher observes that for many years women have endured some form of oppression from patriarchal societies. Unfortunately, this is still the case in some parts of the world. Yet women have and are still playing a pivotal role in societies. However, over the years strides have been made towards the emancipation of women. The study will also explore the concept of feminism, its evolution, and how it is striving to fight for women’s rights and liberation.; Morero wa nyakišišo ye ke go dira tshekatsheko ye e feletšego ya thuto ya polelo ya leago ya go swantšhwa ga basadi ka dingwalong tša Sesotho sa Leboa, go bolela ka tlhagelelo/ebolušene ya boemedi bja bona ka go lekola dingwalwa tša go fapafapana. Tshekatsheko ya thuto ya polelo ya leago (sošiolinkwistiki) ya dingwalwa tše e ka utulla dikanegelo tše di utilwego tša maitemogelo a basadi le dikarolo setšhabeng. Go lemoga tema ye maatla yeo dingwalwa di e kgathago go bopeng temogo ya setšhaba, nyakišišo ye, e katanela go hlabiša seetša ka ga diphetogo tša boemedi bja bong ka gare ga seemo sa setšo sa Sesotho sa Leboa. Ka go šomiša mokgwa wa go dira dikarolo tše dintši, go kopanya thuto ya leago, tshekatsheko ya dingwalwa, le teori ya bosadi, thuto ye e nyaka go utulla ditemogo tše di sa lemogegego ka ga maemo ao a fetogago, dikarolo, le dikanegelo tšeo di bolelago ka basadi dingwalong tša Sesotho sa Leboa. Monyakišiši o lemoga gore mengwaga ye mentši basadi ba kgotleletše kgatelelo ye itšego go tšwa ditšhabeng tša bopatriareka. Ka manyami, go sa le bjalo dinageng tše dingwe. Le ge go le bjalo, basadi ba sa kgatha tema ye bohlokwa ditšhabeng. Fela, mengwageng ya go feta, go dirilwe dikgato tša go lokolla basadi. Thuto ye e tla hlahloba gape kgopolo ya bosadi, tlhagelelo ya yona, le ka moo go katanelago go lwela ditokelo tša basadi le tokologo.; Hierdie navorsingsstudie poog om ‘n omvattende sosiolinguistiese analise te onderneem van die uitbeelding van vroue in die Noord-Sotho letterkunde deur die evolusie van hul beskrywing te ondersoek in verskeie geskrewe bronne. In die besonder kan die sosiolinguistiese ontleding van hierdie literêre werke verborge narratiewe van vroue se ondervindinge en rol in die samelewing aan die lig bring. Gedagtig aan die kragtige rol wat letterkunde speel in die vorming van sosiale persepsies, poog hierdie navorsing om lig te werp op die veranderende dinamiek van geslagsuitbeelding in die Noord-Sotho kulturele konteks. Deur gebruik te maak van ‘n multidissiplinêre benadering, wat sosiolinguistiek, literêre analise en feministeteorie kombineer, stel hierdie studie hom ten doel om genuanseerde insigte in die ontwikkelende status, rolle en narratiewe rondom vroue in Noord-Sotho letterkunde te ontbloot. Die navorser merk op dat vroue oor baie jare een of ander vorm van onderdrukking deur patriargale gemeenskappe verduur het. Ongelukkig is dit nog steeds die geval in sekere dele van die wêreld. Desnieteenstaande het vroue ‘n sleutelrol in gemeenskappe gespeel en doen dit nog steeds. Tog is daar oor die jare vordering gemaak ten opsigte van die emansiepasie van vroue. Die studie ondersoek ook die konsep van feminisme en sy evolusie, asook sy stryd vir die regte en bevryding van die vrou. Abstracts and keywords in English, Northern Sotho and Afrikaans

2025-10-11T00:00:00Z Kamwi, Beven Liswani https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32301 2026-05-29T12:47:33Z 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z

Academic literacy challenges of multilingual first-year students : a case study of university students in Namibia Kamwi, Beven Liswani Academic literacy, particularly academic reading and writing is linked to academic achievement. Students attending university should possess the necessary language and academic literacy proficiency to succeed in their studies. The purpose of this study was to examine the language and academic literacy challenges, especially of first-year students at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Namibia. The study investigates the nature of academic literacy difficulties that multilingual first-year students face while studying at NUST and the adaptation strategies they use; and thus establishes the implications for the design and teaching of the academic literacy programmes. The study was informed by the academic literacies framework (Street, 1984; Lea and Street, 1998) anchored in the New Literacy Studies (NLS) which conceptualises literacy as social practice across contexts, a shift of focus from just skills acquisition (Gee, 1991; Street, 1996). The NLS involves the recognition of multiple literacies, varying according to place and space, and contested relations of power (Street, 2003). A sample of 645 first year students who were attending the ‘English for Academic Purposes’ course and 6 English language lecturers who were teaching the course at NUST formed part of the study population. The student sample was selected through convenience sampling technique, while lecturers were chosen using purposive sampling. It is a case study set within mixed methods (convergent/parallel) research design centred on understanding the challenges of academic literacy of first-year students at NUST and the strategies they use to adapt. The quantitative data were collected through the closed-ended items of the survey, while the qualitative data were collected through the open-ended items of the survey, interviews, and a report writing task. Findings indicated that the first-year students at NUST encountered several language and academic literacy-related challenges. They mainly included lack of academic reading and writing skills, poor citation/referencing, research and information skills, and the inability to use technology including virtual/online learning platforms. The study concluded that the identified challenges seriously impeded the students’ academic progress. The study recommended that NUST should continuously revise and update the content and pedagogy approach of the current core courses including English for Academic Purposes to ensure that they are aligned to the literacy needs of students and to remain relevant to changing needs. Also, it recommended the university to enhance its early alert programme used to identify underprepared students, to ensure that students at risk are identified early enough and assisted. The study also proposed a model to improve academic literacy at NUST and higher education in general in Section 7.4. This was on the premise that academic literacy is firstly fundamentally intertwined with students’ transition from school to university and, secondly, how effectively students are inducted to the new norms and cultures at university.

2024-03-01T00:00:00Z Aninwe, Sandra Uloma Harry https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32297 2026-05-29T12:09:19Z 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z

Language and political ideology : a critical discourse analysis of fourth Republic Nigerian Inaugural Presidential speeches between 1999-2015 Aninwe, Sandra Uloma Harry Language embodies the channel through which political beliefs and ideologies can be communicated. However, the extent to which this is manifested in the language used by politicians in inaugural speeches has not been sufficiently investigated in the context of a diachronic study and in the context of Nigeria as a nation. Hence, this study argues that Nigerian presidential inaugural speeches between 1999 and 2015 construct ideologies through discourse and discursive features that reveal the socio-political situation of Nigeria. The study employed two theoretical frameworks: Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Wodak's Historical Discourse Analysis, which is a version of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The CDA helps analyse the political ideologies, discourse features, discursive patterns, historical contexts and the manifestation of political power in the speeches. The chosen theories aid the study in accounting for modal and clausal functions of the speeches and the link between history and the speech being investigated. On the other hand, the SFG helps investigate the nature of the mood structure and patterns and how they help resonate with political ideologies. Six speeches by former Nigerian presidents were purposely sampled for the study. These include the inaugural speeches of Presidents Obasanjo in 1999 and 2003, Yar' Adua in 2007, Jonathan in 2010 and 2011, and Buhari in 2015. The study found that Nigerian presidents both explicitly and implicitly communicate ideology in the examined inaugural speeches. The historical accounts of the speeches show that each speech is special in its own right as they signal landmark changes and events in the political history of Nigeria. In terms of the explicit ideology, the study found out that Obasanjo and Jonathan in 1999, 2003, 2009, and 2011 greatly relied on the use of religious ideology as a rallying ground and ideological underpinning compared to Yar’Adua and Buhari in 2007 and 2015, whose speeches were more framed in a business-like pattern and straight to the point. On the implicit side, Obasanjo, in Obasanjo I, pushes the reformational and divinity ideologies; in Obasanjo II, the healer and the divinity ideology are foregrounded. In Yar’Adua, the self-diminishing and mitigation ideology that puts power in the government's institutions rather than individuals is deployed. Also, Yar'Adua deploys democratic reform, sincerity, and change ideologies. In Jonathan I, loyalty to Nigerians and political structures and personalities is communicated as an ideology. In Jonathan II, reformation and the people's motivation for unity and progress are communicated as the main ideologies. Then, in Buhari, the democratic reformation ideology is mainly communicated.

2022-08-15T00:00:00Z Ditsele, Pemla https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32288 2026-06-14T16:28:15Z 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z

Translation strategies employed in Kgosi Henry wa bone by M. O. M. Seboni: a focus on cultural and linguistic nuances Ditsele, Pemla Translations of existing literature into other languages were one of the tactics employed by early authors to bridge the area that has not yet been explored or is under-explored in the literature of various African languages. Setswana is no exception in the matter. The aim of this study is to analyse the translation strategies used by Seboni in the drama, Kgosi Henry wa Bone . The objectives of the study include to examine how the translation strategies used by Seboni to address cultural and figurative nuance differences between English and Setswana and evaluate the impact of the translation strategies used by Seboni on Setswana culture and language preservation. To achieve this, the study employed two theories that will serve as the theoretical foundation for this investigation, namely: the Skopos theory and Descriptive Translation Studies theory. The study is qualitative in nature. Data was collected through document analysis of both the English and Setswana drama books. The study reveals that Seboni used both domesticating and foreignising strategies to balance cultural authenticity and linguistic accessibility in preserving the source text’s essence while enhancing reader understanding and engagement. The study concluded that successful translation balances cultural fidelity and linguistic clarity, with Seboni’s work demonstrating how strategic choices foster meaningful cross-cultural understanding.; Phetolelo ya dikwalo tse di setseng di le teng mo dipuong tse dingwe e ne e le nngwe ya maano a a neng a dirisiwa ke bakwadi ba bogologolo go kgabaganya lekala le le iseng le batlisisiwe kgotsa le le batlisisitsweng go le gonnye mo dikwalong tsa dipuo tse di farologaneng tsa SeAforika. Setswana ga se tlhaolege mo kgannyeng e. Maikaelelo a thuto e ke go sekaseka mekgwa ya phetolelo e e dirisitsweng ke Seboni mo terameng ya Kgosi Henry wa Bone. Maikaelelo a thuto a akaretsa go sekaseka gore mekgwa ya phetolelo e e dirisitsweng ke Seboni e samagane jang le dipharologanyo tsa setso le tsa tshwantshiso fa gare ga Seesimane le Setswana le go tlhatlhoba seabe sa mekgwa eo ya phetolelo e e dirisitsweng ke Seboni mo setsong sa Setswana le mo tshomarelong ya puo. Go fitlhelela se, patlisiso e e dirisitse ditiori tse pedi tse ng jaaka motheo wa tiori wa patlisiso e leng,Tiori ya Skopos le Tiori e e Tlhalosang Phetolelo. Patlisiso e, ke ya mokgwa wa khwalitatifi . Dinewana di kgobokantswe ka go tlhatlhoba ditokomane tsa dibuka tsa terama ya Seesimane le Setswana. Patlisiso e senotse gore Seboni o dirisitse mekgwa e mebedi, e leng, mokgwa wa go dirisa mokwalo wa tshimologo mo selegaeng le mokgwa wa go dirisa mokwalo wa selegae wa naga e sele go lekalekanya boammaaruri jwa setso le phitlhelelo ya puo, a boloka botlhokwa jwa mokwalo wa tshimologo fa a ntse a tokafatsa tlhaloganyo le seabe sa mmuisi. Patlisiso e sweditse ka gore phetolelo e e atlegileng e lekalekanya boikanyegi jwa setso le bophepafatsi jwa puo, mme tiro ya ga Seboni e supile gore ditshwaelo tsa mekgwa di tsweletsa pele kutlwisiso e e nang le bokao ya ditso tse di farologaneng. Abstract in English with Tswana translation

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