• A critical evaluation of English-Kwanyama dictionary by G.W.R. Tobias and B.H.C. Turvey 

  Shikesho, Edward (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This study is based in the field of theoretical lexicography also known as dictionary research. It is significant because it aims at the development of Oshiwambo practical and theoretical lexicography. It evaluates the ...
• Reconstruction of atrocities through fiction in Namibia: an evaluation of Mari Serebrov's Mama Namibia and Lauri Kabuitsile's the scattering 

  Nandenga, Anna Ndishakena (University of Namibia, 2019)

  The study explored how fiction represents atrocities and the resilient tactics devised by people who experienced trauma during the 20th century Herero Genocide as presented in the two selected Namibian novels in English. ...
• A critical discourse analysis of the mission statements of selected state-owned enterprises in Namibia 

  Limwena, Eunike (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of the mission statements of state-owned enterprises. The purpose of the study was to investigate the English language employed in the mission statements of state-owned enterprises. ...
• The portrayal of women in power and politics in Chinua Achebe's a man of the people and anthills of the savannah 

  Muunda, Loide N. (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This thesis analysed A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe from a Stiwanism perspective. The study sought to explore Achebe’s ‘feminist ideological turn’ by analysing how women in ...
• A stylistic analysis of language use in advertising: a study of advertisement of selected small to medium entrepreneurs in Oshana region 

  Namwandi, Anna Iyaloo (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This thesis was a stylistic analysis of language use in advertising, a study of advertisements of selected Small to Medium Entrepreneurs in Oshana region. The main purpose of the study was to explore and discuss the most ...
• An investigation of the use of the English language in multilingual communication: a case study of doctors in the Khomas region 

  Basimike, Katrina K. (University of Namibia, 2018)

  The present study investigated the use of the English Language in multilingual contexts. It focussed on communication between English speaking expatriate and local doctors from public and private hospitals with their ...
• Herstory, subjectivity and the public sphere in female narratives of the liberation struggle in Namibia: the case of Ndeshi Namhila, Lydia Shaketange, Libertine Amathila and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu 

  Simataa, Agness (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This study was an exploration of the autobiographical representation of the experiences of four Namibian women who participated in the country’s liberation struggle. The premise of this study was to interrogate how the ...
• Women and subjugation: an evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa 

  Mwetulundila, Rauna (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This study is an examination of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by African women fiction writers namely The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the ...
• A stylistics analysis of healthcare communication discourse on billboards and posters in Windhoek 

  Nashipeta, Angelina U. (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This thesis was a stylistics analysis of healthcare communication discourses on billboards and posters in Windhoek. The main aim of the study was to examine how the language used in healthcare communication messages on ...
• An analysis of code switching in the Namibian parliament 

  Iipinge, Sussana (University of Namibia, 2019)

  The focus of this study was on code switching that occurred in the Namibian Parliament as observed from the volumes of parliamentary Hansards from the year 2015 to 2017. This was a desktop study that employed a qualitative ...
• Crossing the boundary: transnationality and interracial marriage encounters in Jane Katjavivi's undisciplined heart and Trudie Amulungu's taming my Elephant 

  Shiyoka, Selma K. (2019)

  The main focus of the study was to explore the literary presentation of transnational identities and interracial marriage encounters as presented by two Namibian autobiographical texts, Taming my Elephant by Amulungu (2017) ...
• A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the harambee prosperity plan (HPP) policy document 

  Kalimbo, Mathew (University of Namibia, 2019)

  This study analysed the linguistic devices employed in The Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) document which was launched in 2016. The study aimed to explore the discursive ways in which the devices were employed to persuade ...
• A critical analysis of deictic referencing: A case study of selected editorials in the Namibian newspaper 

  Hangalo, Saara N. (University of Namibia, 2019)

  The focus of this study was to analyse deictic referencing in editorials, and particularly, the way in which the editor employed five types of deixis in 30 selected editorials published between June 2016 and June 2017 in ...
• An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo 

  Uushona, Johannes (University of Namibia, 2019)

  Oshiwambo, a Bantu language spoken in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. ...
• A comparative analysis of identity and belonging in Kopano Matlwa's account and Tony Morrison's The Bluest Eye 

  Midzi, Penelope T. (University of Namibia, 2019)

  The arguments presented in this study deal with the complicated factors associated with the formation of new identities in post-apartheid South Africa and Anglo-Saxon Protestant American communities. This study provides a ...
• Assessing students in English for Academic Purposes: The role of alternative assessment tools in writing instruction 

  Hamakali, Hafeni P. (2018)

  http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/11394/6621

  This study aims to investigate the assessment of students in the English for Academic Purposes course at the University of Namibia Language Centre. There has been increasing criticism of standardised test and examinations ...
• Metaphors and meaning in the editorials of the New Era newspaper, 2016: a linguistic exploration 

  Iizyenda, Naitsikile Ndategako (University of Namibia, 2018)

  Metaphors enrich a language and help people understand abstract or unfamiliar content. By linking abstract information to a concrete concept, it becomes easier for people to understand the information. This thesis is an ...
• Investigating the portrayal of social issues in Namibian post-independence poetry written in English 

  Mushonga, Mercy Chiruvo (University of Namibia, 2018)

  The main focus of this thesis was to examine how social issues are conceived and articulated in a representative selection of Namibian post-independence poetry written in English. Couched on and guided by socio-historicism ...
• An investigation of liguistic cross-pollination between English and Silozi among Silozi speakers at tertiary institutions in Windhoek 

  Silume, Morgan Simataa (University of Namibia, 2017)

  This study critically investigated linguistic cross-pollination, or linguistic inter-influence, that took place when two mutually unintelligible languages (Silozi and English) came into contact for an extended period of ...
• Loss of identity and racial melancholy in Nadine Gordimer's burger's daughter and Zakes MDA's The Madonna of excelsior 

  Kavari, Ricardo (University of Namibia, 2018)

  Loss of identity and racial melancholy are essential in a postcolonial Namibia; the feeling of not belonging is brought to the fore in this study. This thesis is an exploration of racial melancholy and loss of identity in ...
• Portrayal of poverty in selected Namibian plays by Hangula, Molapong, Thaniseb and Philander 

  Kazavanga, Erica (University of Namibia, 2018)

  This research study analysed poverty as portrayed in ‘King of the dump’ by Frederick Philander, ‘The show isn’t over until’ by Vickson Hangula, ‘To live a better life’ by Axaro Thaniseb and ‘The horizon is calling’ by ...
• Authoring the unspeakables, moralising the public sphere: a literary examination of social commitment and the artistic vision in Sifiso Nyathi's Oeuvre 

  Iitula, Leena Kaunapawa (University of Namibia, 2018)

  This thesis critically analysed how Sifiso Nyathi, through his oeuvre commits to moralise the public sphere, by authoring the commonly unsaid and veiled societal matters. The oeuvre is comprised of five texts, three plays; ...
• Literacy representations of socio-political issues in the Namibian society in Philander's The Namibian stage chronicles and Kind of the dump and other plays 

  Shilemba, Errikson (University of Namibia, 2018)

  The study is a critical analysis of the literary representations of socio-political issues in the Namibian society as portrayed in Philander’s two anthologies: The Namibian Stage Chronicles (2010) and King of the Dump and ...
• A critical analysis of pragmatic competence of students at the University of Namibia: a case study of the second year Bachelor of Education students 

  Nakale, Monika H. (University of Namibia, 2018)

  The current study was carried out to investigate the following: firstly, the pragmatic competence of UNAM’s second year Bachelor of Education Students majoring in English in selected speech acts, namely, the speech act of ...
• A post-colonial ecocritical analysis of selected African texts: a case of lessing's the grass is singing and Mungoshi's waiting for the rain 

  Kandemiri, Coletta M. (University of Namibia, 2018)

  This thesis analyses The Grass is Singing (1950) by Doris Lessing and Waiting for the Rain (1975) by Charles Mungoshi from a post-colonial ecocritical perspective. Ecocriticism unifies humanity and nature, whilst ...
• The role of English for specific purposes in enhancing workplace literacies for graduates employed in the commercial sector in Windhoek 

  Mungongi, Fillemon (University of Namibia, 2018)

  Contemporary tertiary institutions and workplace organisations face a raft of challenges in coping with competing demands and rapidly changing environments. Today’s challenging economic situation indicates that it is no ...
• Identity as ethical responsibility: a amanifesto for social change in Toni Morrison's fiction 

  De Voss, Vida (University of Namibia, 2017)

  Reading Morrison’s fiction at the hand of Bakhtin and Levinas, as well as considering her own non-fiction, led to the conclusion that sufficient evidence exists to argue Morrison’s novels present identity as ethical ...
• Neo-colonial elitism and its influence in Kenya: a case study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's petals of blood, Devil on the cross and Matigari 

  Sitwala, Josephine Ntelamo (University of Namibia, 2018)

  This study is an analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s portrayal of neo-colonial elitism and its influence in Kenya in his postcolonial novels, Petals of Blood (1977), Devil on the Cross (1982a) and Matigari (1989). The study ...
• Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016 

  Amakali, Justina M. (University of Namibia, 2018)

  The use of rhetoric is essential to verbal communication between politicians who debate pro et contra (for and against) to win arguments and persuade their audience. In this study, parliamentary rhetoric in the Namibian ...
• A critical analysis of the discourse in reviews with the debut novel Kamphoer by Francois Smith as an example 

  Alexander, Anna S. (University of Namibia, 2016)

  A literary text can be analysed in different ways; this research though wanted to analyse the criticism about a successful debut novel to determine if any meaningful deductions could be made from the discourse of reviewers ...

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