Browsing Masters Degrees (Languages & Literature) by Issue Date
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Etude de trois personnages féminins réalisee á la lumière du rôle que joue la dépression dans quelques oeuvres choisies de Marguerite Duras.
(1993)Abstract available in PDF. -
The anthropology of geste and the eucharistic rite of the Roman mass.
(1994)For sixty-five years hardly anyone in the English-speaking world was aware of the anthropological theories of Marcel Jousse, a twentieth century Jesuit scholar. In 1990, Jousse's seminal work, Le style oral rythmique et ... -
Mise Eire : national and personal identity in two recent Irish memoirs.
(2001)Chapter One will outline the way I will be using the constructs of "national" and "personal" identity, and will then move on to provide a brief contextual setting for the creation and importance of certain literary ... -
Selective translations of Rachida Saqi's "Marochaines en male-vie".
(2001)My selection from Rachida Saqi's "novel" "Marocaines en male-vie" consists of a series of vignettes or sketches of Moroccan women and the difficulties they have to endure, some of which are unfamiliar to non-Muslim readers. ... -
Aantekeninge by Skakering (1991) : 'n omgewingsopvoedingsbenadering tot die gedigteks.
(2001)This article has as focus an environmental education analysis of ten selected poems from the book Skakering (Opperman and Coetzee 1991) to associate the problem of environmental education with the teaching of a humanities ... -
Challenges in cross-cultural translation : a discussion of S.E.K. Mqhayi's Ityala Lamawele.
(2002)This thesis is structured into four sections. The first section is a brief statement on the choice of the text chosen for the purpose of translation. Ityala Lamawele is one of the old and classic Xhosa texts and after ... -
The rhythmo-melodic Geste as agent of spiritual communion and/or affirmation of identity : an investigation into the performance of selected tamil and zulu marriage rituals and ceremonies in South Africa.
(2002)This study examines the similarities and differences between the historical background and the current performance of Tamil and traditional Zulu marriages. After presenting an account of the historical development of ... -
Brothers in arms? : a linguistic analysis of four documents from the UDW "fees crisis" of May 2000.
(2002)This dissertation is a sociolinguistic study that applies the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Grammar to written discourse generated in the context of student unrest at a South African tertiary ... -
A balanced reading approach for grade one and two English L1 and EAL learners.
(2003)This study reports on a balanced reading approach (BRA) designed for a multi-cultural classroom, including both Ll ( first language) and EAL ( English additional language ) Foundation phase learners. The purpose of this ... -
An investigation into the factors exerting a subtractive influence on Telegu and its culture.
(2005)In this study, I investigate the sociolinguistic factors that exert a subtractive influence on the Telugu language and Andhra culture. This study focuses on the sociolinguistic features of the Telugu Community and Telugu ... -
Kossi-Komla-Ebri : an African voice in Italian contemporary literature.
(2008)The early eighties saw Italy become a landing bay for thousands of immigrants who abandoned their homes in search of a better life. Almost immediately, Italian academics highlighted the importance of this new phenomenon ... -
On the syntax of derived nominals in English and Greek.
(2009)This study exammes different approaches to analysing the syntactic derivation of nouns from verbs within the theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters (PP phrases by presenting a contrastive study of English and ... -
A cross-linguistic analysis of finite rasing constructions.
(2011)This thesis provides and discusses a comprehensive collection of empirical data that show that many languages of the world manifest long A-movement of the subjects of embedded finite clauses to the subject position ... -
Stages on pages : a comparative study of Pieter-Dirk Uys' one man shows as an autobiographical alternative to memoir.
(2011)In this dissertation I seek to analyse the use of autobiographical monologues and elements in selected scenes from the political revues Foreign Aids (2001) and Elections and Erections (2009) by South African playwright-performer ... -
The opaqueness of chinese compounds : in search of conceptual motivations underlying traditional exocentric compounds and contemporary neologisms in Chinese.
(2011)AIM The aim of this study is to investigate the opacity of Chinese compounds in search of conceptual motivations for traditional exocentric compounds and contemporary neologisms in Chinese. METHODOLOGY This research ... -
La réécriture de l'histoire du Rwanda à travers la littérature post-génocide. Etude de cas de trois romans africains d'expression francaise.
(2012)After the Rwandan genocide in 1994 which irrefutably imposed itself as a reference in history, many books (researches and fiction) were published exposing varied opinions and views. It is an important source which is studied ... -
Linking private and public personal and political transition in Sindiwe Magona's forced to grow.
(2004)No abstract available.