Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the theoretical work in articulating the motivations and conditions for
account-giving in isiXhosa in relation to image restoration. This emotional and behavioural
rehabilitation is done through accounts. In this context, accounts are similar to narratives
and can be retained at the level of private reflections or written as diary entries or for
others to read and refer to from time to time.
The account-making process according to Warren (1989), is like a "life in motion" in which
individual characters are portrayed as moving through their experiences, dealing with
some conflict or problem in their lives and at the same time searching for a resolution. It is
then this 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.
The importance of the intelligibility of accounts is established with reference to Schank and
Abelson (1977) who contend that people construct accounts based on their knowledge
structure approach, causal reasoning and text comprehension. Thus, for an account to be
hounered, it has to be goal-oriented and coherent. In this study, the social-interactive
aspects of account-giving are investigated and it is discovered that severe reproach forms
involving personality attacks and derogatory aspects, elicit defensive reactions that result
in negative interpersonal and emotional consequences. The mitigation-aggravation
continuum is then examined with regard to the selection of the failure management
strategies.
Narrative accounts based on Mcintyre (1981) form the basis of moral and social events
and as such, stories have two elements through which they are explored. They are
explored firstly in the way in which they are told and secondly, on the way they are lived in
the social context. These stories follow a historically or culturally based format and to this
effect, Gergen (1994) suggested a narrative criteria that constitute a historically contingent
narrative form. Narrative forms are linguistic tools that have important social functions to
satisfactorily fulfil such as stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive
narrative. According to Gergen (1994), self-narratives are social processes in which
individuals are realized 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. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die teoretiese werke en die artikulasie van die motiverings en
kondisies vir verslag-making en verslagdoening in isiXhosa m.b.t. beeld-herstel ('image
restoration'). Hierdie emosionele en gedragsrehabilitasie word gedoen deur
verslagdoening. In hierdie konteks is verslae soortgelyk aan narratiewe en kan beskou
word op die vlak van privaatrefleksies of geskryf word as dagboekinskrywings.
Die verslagdoeningsproses, is, volgens Warren (1989) soos 'Iewe-in-beweging', waarin
individuele karakters voorgestel word as dat hulle beweeg deur hulle ondervindings waarin
hulle een of ander konflik of probleem aanspreek, en soek na 'n oplossing. Dit is hierdie
soeke om die hoofspanninge in elke individu se denke te verstaan wat die kern van hierdie
studie is. Die waarom-vrae wat die gevolg is van die daaglikse ondervindinge,
eensaamheid, depressie en gestremdheid, word ook aangespreek in die studie oor
narratiewe in isiXhosa.
Die belangrikheid van die verstaanbaarheid van verslae word ook ondersoek met
verwysing na Schank en Abelson (1977) se siening dat mense verslae konstrueer
gebaseer op hulle kennis, struktuurbenadering, kousale beredenering en teksbegrip. Dus,
vir 'n verslag om gerespekteer te word, moet dit doel-georiënteerd en koherent wees. In
hierdie studie, word die sosiaal-interaktiewe aspekte van verslagdoening ondersoek, en dit
word bevind dat erge verdedigingsvorme persoonlike aanvalle en verkleinerende aspekte
insluit wat verdedigende reaksies uitlok wat negatiewe interpersoonlike en emosionele
gevolge het. Die vermindering-vergroting kontinuum word ondersoek m.b.t. die selektering
van mislukking bestuurstrategieë.
Narratiewe verslae gebaseer op Mcintyre (1981) vorm die basis van morele en sosiale
gebeure, en as sodanig, het stories twee elemente waardeur hulle ondersoek word,
eerstens op die wyse waarop, en tweedens, op die wyse wat hulle beleef word in sosiale konteks. Stories volg In histories- en kultureelgebaseerde formaat. Gergen (1994) het
narratiewe kriteria voorgestel. Narratiewe vorme is linguistiese gereedskap wat belangrike
sosiale funksies het, insluitende stabiliteit narratief, progressiewe narratief en regressiewe
naratief.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/50237 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Mokapela, Sebolelo Agnes |
| Contributors | Dlali, M., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of African Languages. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 297 p. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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