Abstract Decoding meaning in communication depends on semantic properties assigned by grammar and the speaker's intended meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to infer the intended meaning from the cues the speaker provides in the utterance. In such a case, context bridges the explanatory gap between sentence meaning and the speaker's meaning. Context is fundamental for language comprehension because meaning is dependent on it. This implies that context makes clear the intended meaning of any ...
Abstract: In Africa, the human person is the supreme force, the most powerful and dominant among all created beings. While this decreed power makes the lower beings subservient to humanity, it is only intended to be a source of harmony in the advancement of the hospitality and the joy of the human species. Today however, the traditional lifestyles of Africans are threatened with virtual extinction by insensitive development over which the indigenous peoples have no participation. Africa has n...
Abstract Folklore or oral tradition is found to be a favourite indigenous resource for African playwrights and they draw on it to enable them mold the aesthetic concerns in drama/play writing. Considerable critical interest has grown around analyzing the nuances of folklore, society and drama in the context of Africa. Critics like Obiechina confirm that folklore has survived in Africa in spite of the introduction of ‘writing’ as a phenomenon and the foreign tradition which it bears. In ...
INTRODUCTION When I grow up I’d like to be a dog... (A little girl in a Warsaw Ghetto) The muse as endangered specie In their book, Extreme Situations. ■.. David Craig and Michael Egan write, detailing the behavior of literature in the interwar years: “In the ghetto in Warsaw in 1914, Ludwik Hirszfeld asked a little girl, ‘What would you like to be.’ She answered, ‘A dog, because the sentries like dogs’.” Literature continues to recount and transform experiences, such as has...
ABSTRACT State-sponsored electoral violence targeting opposition political party supporters prior to and in the aftermath of elections remains a recurring phenomenon in post-independence Zimbabwe. Significant literature shows that the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party are the main engineers and beneficiaries of this culture of electoral violence. Much scholarly work has focused on the violent side of Zimbabwe’s electoral contests. This paper, however, f...
SHUKRANI Nianze kwa kumshukuru mwenyezi Mungu mwingi wa rehema na utukufu aliyenipa nguvu, uhai, afya na uvumilivu hata nikaweza kuifanya kazi hii kwa kiwango kinachostahili. Pili, nimshukuru kwa nafasi ya pekee Profesa. Frowin Paul Nyoni, huyu ndiye msimamizi wangu wa utafiti huu. Natambua majukumu mengi na mazito ya kikazi na ya kifamilia aliyonayo lakini alichukua na alitumia muda wake mwingi pia katika kuisoma na kutoa mchango wake ili kuleta ufanisi wa kazi hii, tangia tulipoianza katik...