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Gender Asymmetry in the Address System of the Basotho

Letsoela, P.M. (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

Address forms are regarded as indicators of deference, politeness and markers of social distance. This paper examines the address forms and referring expressions used by the Basotho. These forms and expressions are examined ...
Introduction of Free Primary Education in Lesotho: Who are the Beneficiaries?

Makatjane, T. J. (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

by all Basotho children irrespective of their socio-demographic standing. It was also the objective of this study to investigate if differences in participation rates between boys and girls have disappeared following the ...
The Pragmatics of Nicknames Students Use for their Lecturers

Sobane, Konosoang (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

Nicknames are a very special communicative tool in institutions; therefore, this paper sets out to explore nicknames that are used to lecturers by students at NUL. The paper discusses the nicknames in terms of their origin ...
I’m Going To Lis The Cows: Development Of Code Switching In The Speech Of Sesotho- English Bilingual Preschool Children

Moloi, Francina L. (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

Code Switching as a topic in linguistics has been dealt with so extensively that it no longer needs to be defined. For some people it means a “dialectal mixture” (see, for example, Labov, 1972:188). For others it means ...
‘Unspecific Deixis’ in a Southern African English Context

Fandrych, Ingrid (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

‘Africanisms’ are commonly defined as characteristics of African Second Language English usage on a range of levels of linguistic analysis, that is, in terms of Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis and ...
African Christian discourse redefining identity, literature and language education in Southern Africa: the case of the founding text of Paul Mwazha’s African Apostolic Church

Manyawu, Andrew Tichaenzana (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

Being both a subject and a medium of learning in Southern African schools, language is the vehicle through which society may pass on its worldview to its youths. This raises questions of selection and grading of material ...
A Thematic and Historical Synthesis of Embu Oral Traditions

Mushonga, M. (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Humanities, 2008)

Oral traditions, after years of intense debate about their usefulness and admissibility as sources of history, have now come to be accepted as sources of historical inquiry. While they remain largely underutilized, in ...

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