Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-96).

The marriage of English and French in nineteenth-century English-Canadian fiction is a trope reflecting anglophone nationalism and the anglophone desire for identity in a united nation. / The marriage metaphor can be understood within the conservative, idealistic context of nineteenth-century Anglo-Canadian intellectual history. / This study examines marriage imagery in a number of novels--most of them historical romances--published between 1824 and 1899.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-96).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University, 1938. / "Private edition, distributed by the Joint university libraries, Nashville, Tennessee." Bibliography: p. 135-137.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-197). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-96).

Thesis--Freie Universität Berlin. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-373).

Inaugural-Dissertation--Basel, 1918.

M.A. (Afrikaans) / The idea of what a concept is and how concepts change is currently a hot topic of discussion within the cognitive semantics. The term concept has changed significantly from Plato's Idee up until De Saussure's theory early in the twentieth century that the word and its meaning are connected in an arbitrary manner. From there onwards the meaning of the term concept has changed drastically. Linguists like Ogden & Richards and Lyons initially referred to the concept as the mental image one recalls when reference to a certain word is made. But, since the development of the cognitive semantics in the late nineteen eighties, it has developed as a term consisting of image-schemata in the form of gestalts, categories and category models as well as semantic networks. Reinhart Koselleck (2004:84),a historian who focussed on concepts and the change in meaning thereof recommended that any concept is a conglomeration of all the linguistic and semantic networks bedded into the concept but the socio-political factors are especially important when studying a specific concept. Koselleck also focused on the prevalence of key concepts in any society. According to Koselleck key-concepts are those concepts that fulfil a key role in society. Society is depending on these concepts and any change in society will also have a huge impact on the concept. The purpose of this study is to investigate changes in one key-concept namely the concept marriage in the Afrikaner community due to significant changes that has taken place in this concept over the last century. The investigation to what a concept is and how concepts change, take place within the field of the cognitive semantics and this study commences with a theoretical discussion on concepts. After a theoretical discussion on concepts, the historical development and changes of the Western marriage is on the foreground. Seeing that the Afrikaner community developed within the framework of the broader Western civilization, it is necessary to also focus on the broad socio-political and semantic changes. Koselleck stressed the importance of the social changes when any concept is investigated and therefore this study also gives attention accordingly. Focus is placed on the statutory and religious components and changes in the Afrikaans marriage but other socio-politicalfactors impacting on the changes in marriage in the Afrikaner community are also investigated and discussed. The concept marriage and synonyms 'trou (getting married) and "eg' (matrimony) as portrayed in the Afrikaans language system, are also investigated. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships to the concept marriage are mentioned and all the dictionary definitions are stated. This discussion ends with a demonstration of a prototypical framework of the concept marriage with special reference to changes that have occurred, but also to emphasize pressure that marriage in the Afrikaans community is currently undergoing to change its form and presentation again. To demonstrate how any linguistic change occurs firstly in the social realm before it is transfered to the linguistic system- this study applies cognitive semantic methods in the form of image-schematic structures and force schemas to the novel Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk. The novel Agaat is chosen as example material because of its setting in a pastoral environment before extensive urbanisation took place. The story is also set against the backdrop of the golden era of marriage and the marriage of Milia and Jak de Wet is investigated accordingly. Koselleck (2004:70) states that a concept changes firstly in the social realm before it gets widely accepted in the documented language systems and practice of a community. The language community and practice need to internalize and document any changes before its gets widely accepted as the prototype sample. This study demonstrates how changes commence firstly in the socio-political practice preparatory to these changes getting accepted into the wider language community and semantic networks.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt is een van die belangrikste outeurs van die moderne Duitse letterkunde. Hy gebruik die verhoog om sekere probleme in die samelewing uit te lig sonder om voorskriftelik te wees. Hy ervaar die wêreld waarin hy leef as ondeurskoubaar, vreemd en gekompliseerd en teen hierdie agtergrond is die tragedie onmoontlik. Elke poging wat die held aanwend om die wêreld te verander of ten goede te beïnvloed, moet noodwendig misluk. Juis daarom noem Dürrenmatt sy werke komedies. Hy wend die groteske as stylelement met groot sukses aan, omdat hy ‘n wêreld wat uit sy voeë geruk is, so kan uitbeeld. Dit verander en verwring karakters en gebeure op die verhoog tot so ‘n mate dat dit nodig geword het om ‘n nuwe woord te skep om die literêre nalatenskap van die outeur te omskryf, nl. die groteskkomedie. In sy uitbeelding van die verhouding tussen man en vrou neem prositusie ‘n kardinale plek in. In sy wese is prostitusie ‘n bose sweer wat almal verwoes wat daarmee in aanraking kom en dit ontneem die individu die geleentheid om volgens die Westerse norme en beginsels ‘n normale te lewe te lei. Die twee sterkste vrouekarakters uit Dürrenmatt se pen is prostitute en hulle is nie tot diep emosies in staat nie. Die manlike geslag is vir hulle slegs ‘n nuttige artikel. Ten spyte van hulle immorele gedrag droom die prostituut nogtans van ‘n gesin en kinders, maar sonder uitsondering betaal die karakters met hul lewens daarvoor. Dikwels sit die kinders van prostitute die bose kringloop van hul ma’s se lewenswyse voort en volg ook die beroep na, omdat hulle niks anders ken nie. Om die afstootlikhede van prostitusie uit te lig en te kontrasteer, skilder Dürrenmatt ook die maagdelike, beeldskone karakter wat sterk aan die Maagd Maria herinner, maar ook sy kan die gebroke, ondeurskoubare wêreld nie deurgrond nie. Die outeur spreek ook ander seksuele probleme in die samelewing aan, soos bv. homoseksualiteit, biseksualiteit en verkragting. Die moderne dramaturg word gekonfronteer met die Judeo-Christelike ideaal van die huwelik as ‘n eerbare instelling, maar dit word selde bereik. Verskeie probleme tussen man en vrou word onder die loep geneem, waarvan ‘n gebrek aan kommunikasie, ontrouheid, oneerlikheid, eendaamheid en egskeiding enkeles is wat Dürrenmatt kritiseer. Liefde is byna nooit die redes tot die sluiting van ‘n huwelik nie. Ander elemente, soos politieke mag, geld, die bevordering van die wetenskap en die mees groteske rede, naamlik moord op vorige eggenotes speel ‘n groot rol. Ook feministe maak hulle verskyning in Dürrenmatt se werk en mannehaters word op groteske wyse geskilder. Deurgaans kom Dürrenmatt se pessimistiese wêreldbeeld te voorskyn in sy werk. Die verhouding tussen man en vrou is uiters negatief, destruktief en word deur intense ongelukkigheid gekenmerk. / Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Knobloch