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Publikováno v:
Current Issues in Language Planning. 8:437-467
Studies of African naming practices focus almost exclusively on the meanings and etymology of names and details about the circumstances surrounding how such names are assigned. Such research has not examined the implications naming has for language p
Publikováno v:
Current Issues in Language Planning. 7:377-414
This monograph focuses on the development of colonial and post-colonial language policies and practices in Zimbabwe, attributing changes to evolving philosophies and politics in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe. In colonial Zimbabwe, we argue that
Autor:
Pedzisai Mashiri, Sinfree Makoni
Publikováno v:
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 13-38 (2003)
This article discusses the pragmatic significance of chiShona pronouns by examining the use of different pronouns: personal, enumerative, and demonstrative, and by demonstrating their address and referential value and social meanings. Two important i
Autor:
Pedzisai Mashiri
Publikováno v:
Zambezia: The Journal of Humanities of the University of Zimbabwe; Vol 32, No 1 (2005)
The contact between the Shona and immigrants from Malawi dates back to more than six decades ago. Throughout this period, the ethnic relations of the two groups have been represented in fiction, drama and popular music as antagonistic. However, very
Publikováno v:
Language in Society. 36
This article analyzes the reasons for and the effects of the language shift in Zimbabwe represented by the increasing use of pan-ethnic lingua francas, or urban vernaculars, of local origin. It is suggested that essentialist/ primordialist assumption
Autor:
Sinfree Makoni, Pedzisai Mashiri
Publikováno v:
Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages
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https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599255-005
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599255-005
Autor:
Pedzisai Mashiri
Publikováno v:
Zambezia: The Journal of Humanities of the University of Zimbabwe; Vol 30, No 2 (2003); 204-228
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies; Vol 22, No 1 (2004); 27-42
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies; Vol 22, No 1 (2004); 27-42
This article provides an interpretive analysis of Shona native speakers' use of kinship terms of address as forms of communicative resources to invoke social meanings in non-kin relations. Two types of data were used for the analysis of social meanin
Publikováno v:
Zambezia: The Journal of Humanities of the University of Zimbabwe; Vol 29, No 2 (2002); 221-234
Tlie article investigates the names tliat the Shona-speaking people1 in conlempunii 1/ Zimbabwe create and use in casual communication on the Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), the messages transmitted through these nnmes and the ethic
Autor:
Pedzisai Mashiri
Publikováno v:
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies; Vol 20, No 4 (2002): ; 245-261
Code-mixing (hereafter CM) is a worldwide communicative phenomenon that obtains in language contact situations and is well documented especially in the context of third-world societies. However, little or no systematic attention has been paid to Shon