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Social cohesion is the cornerstone of social relationships, which depend critically on the
social systems that determine people’s behaviour. Members of society are defined by their
cultural values and beliefs, in terms ...
The Constitution of South Africa is the fundamental guideline determining the way the country should be managed and governed. At the time of its drafting, the main aim of the Constitution was to heal the divisions of the ...
Code-switching has become a common social phenomenon governed by social conversational needs. Central
to the use of code-switching is the way in which social norms, which are also called rights and obligations, ...
The capacity to use language is unique from one individual to another. This
could also depend on the individual’s exposure to a language. This article aims
to contribute to the growing area of research on language anxiety ...
The worth of using language to convey information is rooted in our cultural mythology. Media, through its role of teaching, can play its part in the socio-cultural empowerment of the people. It is a common belief that it ...
Fifteen years have passed since the South African Constitution first declared that there would be 11 official
languages in South Africa. This declaration was intended to enhance the promotion and development of the
historically ...
Madonsela, Stanley(Journal of Educational Studies, 2016)
Code switching constitutes one of many language contact phenomena and it can be understood by placing it in the double context of the speech economy of a multilingual society. It is a product of prolonged interaction among ...
This article explores the argument that black South Africans identify themselves readily with their ethnic groups when it comes to activities such as listening to the radio or singing songs in their respective indigenous ...
This article is premised on the theoretical intricacies embedded in issues of languages vis-à-vis identity and the relationship between identity, language orientations and citizenry. A theoretical social constructionist ...
Phaahla, Pinkie(Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2014)
The promotion of multilingual education can be regarded as a force that is driving change in language teaching and learning. The existing literature refers to the positive impact of new discourses and interventions on ...
In promoting a multilingual South Africa, the
government is encouraging people to speak
more than one language. In order to comply
with this initiative, people choose to learn the
languages which they do not speak as ...
Storytelling consists of an interaction between a narrator and a listener, both of whom assign meaning to the story as a whole and its component parts. The meaning assigned to the narrative changes over time under the ...
Mojapelo, Mampaka L.(South African Journal of African Languages, 2003)
This article investigates the nature and occurrence of external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho, with specific reference to the unaccusative hypothesis. Weather verbs are unaccusative. Their surface structure ...
The objective of this article is to present the identifying features of the Northern Sotho proper name as a subcategory of the broader word category N (noun). The article analyses the identifying morphological features and ...
Ngwana ’a ditlhaka (reed baby) is a traditional Northern Sotho concept that can roughly be equated to a fertility
doll, an artefact that is familiar to many cultures. It is specifically made for a young woman, by elderly ...
The grammatical position of the subject noun phrase in Northern Sotho is to the left of the predicate. The subject agreement morpheme is a compulsory link between the subject noun phrase and the predicate. Scholars have ...