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(University of Namibia, 2023)This study explores the literary portrayal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) characters in selected African texts. The study is based on the following literary works: Speak no Evil by ...
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(University of Namibia, 2023)The current study explored the forms of persuasion in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Fugard’s (along with John Kani and Winston Ntshona), Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a European and ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)Given the chequered history of Afrikaans in Namibia, it is to be expected that a range of attitudes and perceptions regarding Afrikaans have existed and still exist among its own speakers as well as among non-speakers who ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)In Namibia, ‘intimate partner violence’ remains a huge concern. A variety of sources may have presented ‘intimate partner violence’ as a phenomenon but not many seem to have touched on the writing style perpetuating and ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)The purpose of the study was to investigate possible meanings of the structurally ambiguous headlines found in The Namibian newspaper and to illustrate the ambiguity by tree diagram. The study focused on structural ambiguity ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)This study offers a neo-Aristotelian and visual rhetoric analysis of two purposively selected volumes of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)’s revolutionary magazine, The Combatant. The aim of the study was to ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)The study examined the thematic concerns in Smuts’s Death, Detention and Disappearance: A Lawyer’s Battle to Hold Power to Account in 1980s Namibia as evinced through the author’s utilisation of the three different ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)This study explored the use of anthropomorphism in selected Namibian children’s literature texts. The texts that formed part of the analysis were obtained from the anthology, The Stolen Water and Other Stories: Traditional ...
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(University of Namibia, 2016)The aim of this proposed study is to explore critically how literature presents migration, displacement and diaspora in An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah and We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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Expressions of exile and homecoming: A critical analysis of the selected Namibian poetry in English (University of Namibia, 2020)The main focus of this thesis was to analyse the thematic expressions of the exile and homecoming of selecting Namibia poetry in English. The study is guided by new historicism and post colonialism theories. The study ...
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(University of Namibia, 2022)Feminisation of poverty is a term that was coined by Diana Pearce in 1976 after observing an increased concentration of income poverty among women in America (Peterson, 1987). This term was applied in the analysis of Tsitsi ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)The current study investigated multilingualism in the lecture room, paying particular attention to the presence or absence of translanguaging at the University of Namibia (UNAM) main campus. The purpose of the study was, ...
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(University of Namibia, 2018)School mottos and mission statements use language that is similar to language of advertisement. This study is a stylistic analysis of school mottos and mission statements. The main purpose of the study was to analyse how ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)Gender-based violence is a global problem of great concern. This thesis is a critical examination of the literary presentation of gender-based violence in the anthology We Must Choose Life (2008) by Elizabeth IKhaxas (Ed). ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)This study analysed the functions of Oshiwambo proverbs. The study was guided by three objectives namely: to analyse and identify functions of Oshiwambo proverbs; to assess the proverbs and examine their meanings; and to ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)This study offered an audio-visual rhetorical (AVR) analysis of the then Minister of Education and Culture, Dr Abraham Iyambo’s audio-visuals (AVs) on how he advocated for ‘free education for all’ in Namibia. Various ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)The rising popularity of social networking sites among university students has led to invisible lines between students’ offline and online identities. Students are often lured into expressing themselves openly on social ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)The 1904-1908 Conflict has not received much attention as other genocides such as the Holocaust or the Armenian Genocide and with some scholars even arguing that it was not a genocide but just a colonial war. During this ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)Cli-fi is a neologism that is accredited to Dan Bloom, and it is used to refer to novels, short stories and films whose main focus is on the consequences of climate change (Svoboda, 2016). This thesis employed a qualitative ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)Afrofuturism, Magical Realism and African Mythology are genres in literary fiction that can be used by authors and writers to explore difficult themes, complex characters, speculative settings and experimental plot points. ...
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(University of Namibia, 2021)Good public speaking is an art, and in order to convince or persuade an audience, one needs to master the skills for this art of oratory. This ability is often enhanced by employing a variety of communication strategies, ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)This thesis examined how literature presents the (in)significance of the African boy child as an unheard voice in the selected feminist critical discourses of three literary works - Mariama Ba’s (1979) So Long a Letter, ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)This literary thesis explored ethnocentric segregation and discrimination in Bessie Head’s Maru and Gasebalwe Seretse’s The Pursuit of Xhai. The purpose of the study was to investigate the causes and effects of ethnocentric ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)The main focus of the study was to comparatively analyse The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a postcolonial ecofeminist perspective. Postcolonialism ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)The study is based on the anthroponomastics approach and investigated the significance of Oshiwambo combat names for the People Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) freedom fighters during the armed liberation struggle for ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)The thesis is a comparative Appraisal analysis of political news from two Namibian English newspapers (The Namibian and New Era), particularly focusing examining the propagation of journalistic attitudinal biases in political ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)This thesis provides a poststructural feminist examination of widowhood in the novels So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba and The Only Son by John Munonye. The selected two novels were chosen because of the recurring themes on ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)The main purpose of this study was to explore linguistic innovation, a case of selected posts by Namibian as expressed on social media platforms: Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. In addition, the study sought to identify ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)The thesis explored the dynamics of the rhetoric of the language of science on climate change publications. The arguments presented in this study were drawn from a theoretical framework that saw rhetorical arguments, texts ...
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(University of Namibia, 2020)the contemporary world of advertising, the highly sexualised feminine figure sells products (Haugg, 1998). The study examines, through the theoretical lenses of Poststructural Feminism and Semiotic Theories, how women are ...