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An investigation in anthroponyms of the Shona societyMakondo, Livingstone 06 1900 (has links)
Given names, amongst the Shona people, are an occurrence of language use for specific purposes. This multidisciplinary ethnographic 1890-2006 study explores how insights from pragmatics, semiotics, semantics, among others, can be used to glean the intended and implied meaning(s) of various first names. Six sources namely, twenty seven NADA sources (1931-1977), one hundred and twenty five Shona novels and plays (1957-1998), four newspapers (2005), thirty one graduation booklets (1987-2006), five hundred questionnaires and two hundred and fifty semi-structured interviews were used to gather ten thousand personal names predominantly from seven Shona speaking provinces of Zimbabwe. The study recognizes current dominant given name categories and established eleven broad factors behind the use of given names. It went on to identify twenty-four broad based theme-oriented categories, envisaged naming trends and name categories. Furthermore, popular Shona male and female first names, interesting personal names and those people have reservations with have been recognized. The variety and nature of names Shona people prefer and their favoured address forms were also noted. The study reckons that Shona first names came as a result of unparallel anthroponomastic and linguistic innovation exuded by the Shona people in their bid to tame their reality. The study uses an anthroponym-pragma-semio-semantic decompositional theory, approximation model, contextualized implicature, maxims of brevity and tactfulness as the best approaches for explaining the varied meanings personal names embody. The study argues that it has made significant contributions to the body of knowledge in disciplines such as semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, history, geography, religion, education, philology, morphology and syntax, among others. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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An investigation in anthroponyms of the Shona societyMakondo, Livingstone 06 1900 (has links)
Given names, amongst the Shona people, are an occurrence of language use for specific purposes. This multidisciplinary ethnographic 1890-2006 study explores how insights from pragmatics, semiotics, semantics, among others, can be used to glean the intended and implied meaning(s) of various first names. Six sources namely, twenty seven NADA sources (1931-1977), one hundred and twenty five Shona novels and plays (1957-1998), four newspapers (2005), thirty one graduation booklets (1987-2006), five hundred questionnaires and two hundred and fifty semi-structured interviews were used to gather ten thousand personal names predominantly from seven Shona speaking provinces of Zimbabwe. The study recognizes current dominant given name categories and established eleven broad factors behind the use of given names. It went on to identify twenty-four broad based theme-oriented categories, envisaged naming trends and name categories. Furthermore, popular Shona male and female first names, interesting personal names and those people have reservations with have been recognized. The variety and nature of names Shona people prefer and their favoured address forms were also noted. The study reckons that Shona first names came as a result of unparallel anthroponomastic and linguistic innovation exuded by the Shona people in their bid to tame their reality. The study uses an anthroponym-pragma-semio-semantic decompositional theory, approximation model, contextualized implicature, maxims of brevity and tactfulness as the best approaches for explaining the varied meanings personal names embody. The study argues that it has made significant contributions to the body of knowledge in disciplines such as semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, history, geography, religion, education, philology, morphology and syntax, among others. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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The African philosophical conception of personal naming among the Shona speaking people of ZimbabwePenzura, Crymore 01 1900 (has links)
Text in English with summaries in English, Shona and isiXhosa / Bibliography: leaves 140-144 / Personal names carry significant meaning in African cultures. The research critically
argues that among the Shona speaking people of Zimbabwe, given names are not just
mere tags or labels but carry and convey a significant message to the family or society
of the named person. The message is often descriptive of the person named or their
family. It describes the circumstances around the birth of the named or the conditions
of their parents or their country and or their environment. The research further shows
that names derived from socio-cultural experiences may have a plurality of meanings
and also that they may be used to predict or explain something about the person
named, including their parents or environment. Philosophically then, to name is to
confirm, or to negate, and to confer something to the person named or to describe the
circumstances of their birth. / Mazita edungamunhu ane chirevo mutsika nemagariro evanhu vemuAfrica. Donzvo
retsvakurudzo ino rinotaura nezvevanhu verudzi rweChiShona munyika yeZimbabwe, richiti
mazita anopihwa vana haangova mazita chete, asi anetsanangudzo yakakosha zvikuru
kumhuri kana kuti munzvimbo yaberekerwa munhu wacho, kana kuti kumuridzi wezita racho.
Tsananguro yacho inotaura nezvemuridzi wezita kana kuti kumhuri yaaberekerwa.
Tsananguro yacho inotsanangudza mamiriro enguva yaberekwa munhu wacho kana kuti tsika
nemagariro evabereki vake kana mamiriro emunyika yaaberekwa kana kuti munzvimbo
yaaberekerwa. Tsvakurudzo ino inoenderera mberi ichitaura kuti mazita evanhu anobva
mutsika memagariro evanhu anoreva zvinhu zvakawanda nekuti dzimwe nguva
anoshandiswa kutaura zvichauya kana kutsanangura nezvemuridzi wezita kana vabereki
vake, dzimwe dzenguva nzvimbo yavanogara. Saka fungidziro inoti, kupa zita kubvumirana
kana kupikisana, kana kuti kugadza chigaro pamunhu kana kuti katsanangudza mamiriro
akaita nguva yaaberekwa. / gama lomntu linentsingiselo enzulu kwiinkcubeko zama-Afrika. Uphando lubonisa
ngokucacileyo ukuba phakathi kwabantu baseZimbabwe abantetho isisiShona, igama
alinikwayo umntu asinto nje yokuphawula, koko ngumyalezo obalulekileyo omalunga nosapho
okanye uluntu lwalowo uthiywa igama. Lo myalezo ula ngokuchaza ngalowo uthiywayo
okanye usapho lwakhe. Kuchazwa iimeko ezingqonge ukuzalwa kwakhe okanye imeko
yabazali bakhe, isizwe sakhe okanye indalo ebangqongileyo. Uphando lubonakalisa ukuba
amagama asekelwe kumava enkcubeko nezentlalo anganeentsingiselo eziliqela. Ngaphaya
koko, la magma asenokusetyeniziselwa ukuqikelela okanye ukucacisa okuthile malunga nalo
uthiywayo, abazali bakhe okanye indalo ebangqongileyo. Ngokwefilosofi ke ngoko, ukuthiya
igama kukungqina okanye kukuphikisa, kukubethelela inyaniso ethile ngomntu othiywa igama,
ikwakukuchaza iimeko zokuzalwa kwakhe. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Phil. (Philosophy)
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