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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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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) ...
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A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) policy document (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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(2018)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 ...
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(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 ...