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An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu
Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
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| author | Shabalala, Brian Christian Thamsanqa |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/2064 An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu Shabalala, Brian Christian Thamsanqa Dlali, M. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of African Languages. Account giving Love affairs Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Zulu language Narration (Rhetoric) Zulu (African people) -- Social life and customs Content analysis (Communication) Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. This study explores the theoretical work in the articulation of the motivations and conditions for account-giving in isiZulu. In this context, accounts are similar to narratives and can be retained at the level of private reflections or written diary entries or for others to read and refer to from time to time. The account-giving process, according to Waldron (1997), is like a “life in motion” in which individual characters are portrayed as moving through their experiences, dealing with conflicts or problems in their lives and, at the same time, searching for resolutions. It is the quest to understand the major stresses in each individual’s mind that is at the core of this study. The why-questions that are the result of the daily experiences of destitution, depression, death, disability, etc. are also addressed here. Narrative accounts form the basis of moral and social events and, as such, stories have two elements through which they are explored. They are explored from the point of view of, firstly, the way in which they are told and, secondly, the way in which they are lived within a social context. These stories follow a historically or culturally based format and, to this effect, Gergen (1994) suggests narrative criteria that constitute a historically contingent narrative form. Narrative forms are linguistic tools that have important social functions to fulfil satisfactorily, such as stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive narrative. According to Gergen (1994), self-narratives are social processes in which individuals are realised on the personal perspective or experience and, as such, their emotions are viewed as constitutive features of relationship. The self-narratives used and analysed in this study portray the contemporary culture-based elements or segments of a well-formed narrative. Masters 2009-02-13T10:07:32Z 2010-06-01T08:39:49Z 2009-02-13T10:07:32Z 2010-06-01T08:39:49Z 2009-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2064 en University of Stellenbosch application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | Account giving Love affairs Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Zulu language Narration (Rhetoric) Zulu (African people) -- Social life and customs Content analysis (Communication) Shabalala, Brian Christian Thamsanqa An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title | An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title_full | An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title_fullStr | An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title_short | An analysis of account on love affairs in IsiZulu |
| title_sort | analysis of account on love affairs in isizulu |
| topic | Account giving Love affairs Dissertations -- African languages Theses -- African languages Zulu language Narration (Rhetoric) Zulu (African people) -- Social life and customs Content analysis (Communication) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2064 |
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