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(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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(2016)This paper examined the speech acts used by Namibian Members of Parliament (MPs) during parliamentary proceedings. The main aim of this paper was to explain speech acts and show their intended persuasive effects in ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)The purpose of this study was to explore the role of drama in teaching English to enhance students’ communicative skills at the University of Namibia. The discussions of the research focused on assessing the benefits of ...
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(2017)The world of cosmetics has predominantly been a woman‟s sphere, but in recent years there seems to be an increase in the number of men who use cosmetic products. Cosmetic companies have responded to this by manufacturing ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)Hedges and boosters play different roles in academic discourse. This thesis is an analysis of the application of hedges and boosters in all ten theses of the Master of Arts in English Studies submitted and examined at the ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This study investigates the literary portrayal of children as participants of the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila’s The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange’sWalking the Boeing 707. The focus of the ...
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(University of Namibia, 2017)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is best known for her literary works and literary achievements. The Nigerian novelist is also a public rhetor whose orations are easily accessible on the internet, YouTube and other sites. Adichie’s ...
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(University of Namibia, 2017)The language that is used in advertising is different from other pieces of writing. This study is a stylistic analysis of Mobile Telecommunication Limited (MTC) and Telecom Namibia Mobile’s (TN Mobile) English online ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This thesis explores the depiction of masculinities in Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope and Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu. The portrayal of the male figures invAfrican women writing is an area ...
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(University of Namibia, 2017)This study analysed the stylistic features of foregrounding and figurative language as used by Diescho in his “Dictums” published in the New Era newspaper between January 2014 and December 2015, using the formalist theory. ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This research study is an analysis of literary representation of stigmas and myths associated with death in the two selected novels, namely: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas and The Other Presence by Francis ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)Even though there are several studies in the field of literature that looked at violence, most researches did not necessarily concern with political violence which cast across any human being. Political and electoral ...
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(University of Namibia, 2017)Environmental issues have become a matter of concern for many countries and educational institutions but this subject still remains largely under-investigated in literary studies, particularly in Africa. In this study, ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)During the election campaign period in Namibia, different political parties attempt to use all means possible to convince the electorate. Political discourse is one of the most crucial means of persuasion that political ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This thesis was an analysis of satire as a tool for socio-political commentary in The Rambler’s articles. The study analysed the strategies that The Rambler used in 40 articles that were published in 2015 in The Namibian ...
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(2016)This study investigated how African women in cohabitative relationships, defined as married and/or unmarried couples who live together and have sexual relationships, cope, as portrayed in the selected ten short stories by ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This study investigated tertiary lecturers’ and students’ perceptions and preferences on the provision of corrective feedback in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom at the Namibia University of Science and ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)This study provides a rhetorical analysis of four inaugural addresses delivered by Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela during their inauguration ceremony as the first presidents in Mozambique, ...
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(2015)This thesis provides a critical analysis of the portrayal of the girl-child by Erna Muller in It all goes wrong and When you dance with the crocodile. The two novels were selected using purposive sampling as they primarily ...
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The role of code switching as a communicative strategy between Outapi residents and public officials (2015)This study focused on the role of code switching between English and Oshiwambo in Outapi. Outapi is a rural town in the northern part of Namibia. Its residents are exposed to a variety of languages such as Portuguese, ...
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(2015)This thesis investigated the inner- and interpersonal conflicts caused by living in two different geographical worlds, as well as two different metaphysical worlds as manifested mainly by Obi in No longer at ease but also ...
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(2015)This thesis was a critical discourse analysis of Metropolitan and Sanlam Namibia’s English advertisements in The Namibian newspaper. The purpose of the study was to investigate the English language of persuasion leveraged ...
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An exploration of afropolitanism in Taiye Selasi's Ghana must go and chimamanda Adichie's Americanah (2015)This study is an exploration of the representation of Afropolitanism in Taiye Selasi’s debut novel Ghana must go (2013), and Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Americanah (2013). The purpose of the study was to explore Afropolitanism ...
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(Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA), 2008)An alarming number of scholars have discussed Southern African students’ low proficiency in academic literacy on entering tertiary institutions. This article will take an in-depth look into the current interpretation of ...
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(Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA), 2011)A passive sentence construction is a grammatical process in which an object noun phrase of an active verb becomes the subject noun phrase of the passive verb, while the subject noun phrase of the active verb is degraded ...
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(Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA), 2011)In Namibia, the accent of Higher Education is increasingly moving towards the provision of access opportunities to previously disadvantaged students. Most students, currently entering Higher Education at the University of ...
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(Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA), 2008)This article reports on a study that investigated the oral proficiency of ESL Teacher trainees in different discourse domains. The sample of the study consisted of twenty ESL teacher trainees in their final year at a College ...
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(Namibian Educational Research Association (NERA), 2008)Academic success at university level is mainly determined by reading ability as most students still read for their courses. L2 university students reading below their maturational levels, can mainly be attributed to their ...
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(2013)This study was motivated by the pervasive difficulties which Namibian learners and students experience in reading and understanding English texts, and which impact negatively on the academic progress of these learners and ...