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The postcolonial condition of names and naming practices in southern Africa /
"The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in southern Africa represents a milestone in southern African onomastic studies. The contributors here are all members of, and speakers of, the cultures and languages they write about, and, together, they speak with an authentic African...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The way we name now: postcolonial perspectives from southern Africa / Oliver Nyambi and Tendai Mangena
- Prescriptions and attributions in the names of Izinyanga in Ethekwini Municipality, South Africa / Thenjiwe Meyiwa and Thandokazi Maseti
- Xhosa cultural values and beliefs in the names of Ingcibi (traditional surgeon) / Madoda Cekiso
- Hlonipha: the naming of newly married women among the AbaThembu of Eastern Cape, South Africa / Carina Nomfuzo Rozani
- On the brink of a new naming practice: Chinese influences in Zimbabwean naming systems / Herbert Mushangwe
- A cross-cultural comparative study of Shona-Portuguese and Shona-Chinese names / Margret Chipara and Herbert Mushangwe -S pirituality in the Shona Christian naming system / Richard Maposa and Bernard Humbe
- Pseudonymity as self-naming: the pseudonym and the performer in Zimbabwean socio-technical spaces / Nhlanhla Landa
- ' Doing things' with titles: Zimbabwean literary titles (pre- and early post-independence) / Oliver Nyambi
- The Adamic licence in Ellen Banda-Aaku's patchwork / Cheela Himutwe Chilala
- Metaphors of resistance: nicknames in Tanzanian fiction / John Wakota
- Symbolic geographies: place names in selected Zimbabwean fiction / Tendai Mangena
- Semantic blending and foregrounding of nouns: Vera's naming system in Under the tongue / Sindiso Zhou
- Mapping the poetics of names in the novels of John Eppel, Petina Gappah and NoViolet Bulawayo / Gibson Ncube
- The Onoma of the Angolan revolution: a literary onomastic reading of Mayombe / Amos Mushati
- Names in space: some theoretical perspectives on the place names of the southern African urban landscape / Charles Pfukwa and Zvinashe Mamvura
- The toponymics of postcolonial Zambia: street naming patterns in Lusaka / Mildred Wakumelo, David Mwanza and Benson Mkandawire
- Suburban blight: perpetuating colonial memory through naming in Mutare, Zimbabwe / Mapara and Shumirai Nyota
- Phoneme-grapheme disparities in some Bulawayo Ndebele toponyms / Sambulo Ndlovu
- -Semantics of band appellations: band names and music in Zimbabwe / Mickias Musiyiwa
- Enhanced masculinities: names of male aphrodisiacs in selected southern African Countries / Kelvin Mambwe and Dinis Fernando Da Costa
- Naming a ride: names of minibus taxis and family-owned buses in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces in South Africa / Madoda Cekiso and Thenjiwe Meyiwa.