Browsing by Author "Banda, F"

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    Archaisms of Kinyarwaanda: a sociolinguistic study
    (University of the Western Cape, 2002) Igiraneza, T; Banda, F
    This is a socio-historical study of the Kinyarwaanda language. On the basis of the method of internal reconstruction and the method of the Principal Components Analysis (PCA), the study analyses linguistic variations that occurred in the parent language of the Kinyarwaanda language and whose result is contemporary Kinyarwaanda. Those variations or changes occurred on three levels: the phonological level, the morphosynactic level and the lexico-semantic level.
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    Media representations of reporting techniques of four news houses related to two mediated events during the Trump administration
    (2020) Bassier, Qanita; Banda, F
    Media representations, embedded in reported media events, play a pivotal role in the propagation of beliefs, ideologies and establishing the status quo. The media events are given coverage by news reports on newsworthy topics, and in this case, politics. In this mini-dissertation, two particular media events, namely the Travel Ban instituted by President Donald Trump, and making Jerusalem the official capital of Israel, were analysed based on the different viewpoints writers portrayed on the same media events. Being contemporary political events related to the current President of America, it was evident that a standard news structure was common and spatial positioning of texts was a noticeable key feature of news report. The use of pronouns as the subject in headlines, including nominalisations, clause embedding and speech acts, clarified implicit and underlying meanings of the text. The linguistic choices made by the writers had a direct link to the text, which propagated Trump�s social and political ideologies positively and negatively based on these choices. The textual construct of four online news reports from four American-based newspapers presented both positive and negative revelations about Trump�s political aims. The stance of writers pronounced subjective views in three of the four the news reports. The contentious issue of Jerusalem proved to be sensitive one, in that the religious sensibilities played a major role in the dispute of Palestinian lands. The linguistic choices most utilised were non-cohesive use of grammar rules as opposed to other texts; linguistic techniques, such as the discourse of exclusion; and the choice of wording, particularly understood within the Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) framework.
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    The social semiotics of hair: re-constructing cape coloured South African female identities- the transition
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Jansen, Anoesjka; Banda, F
    Cape Coloured women have been misrepresented and misunderstood for generations as a result of apartheid and the deeply rooted ideologies at play during that time. The Coloured body was subjected to the colonial ideals of the time and these strained standards had adverse effects on the relationships these women had with their identity wrapped up in their hair. The aim of this study is to highlight the effects apartheid beauty norms had on their identity, to showcase the narrowed view of the media and their ill representation of Coloured women and their hair by providing Coloured women with an outlet to retell their hair stories of transitioning from the ridged colonial past into a decolonized present and future. Through the methodological approach of the Narrative inquiry, data was collected through interviews. Further data was collected via Media and Social Media platforms. The theoretical framework of Critical Multisemiotic/Multimodal Discourse Analysis was used to unpack and analyse the data alongside Analytical frameworks of identity. The major findings suggest that through transitioning back to natural hair, Coloured women are restoring relationships with their hair and as a result now have the ability to re-construct their identity through decolonizing their hair. It is concluded that identity is a complex and fluid entity that can be presented and represented in various spheres of being including that of hair. Hair is a marker of identity, a form of expression that, for women in this case, is a complex factor of their identity and no matter how you may phrase it, as a result of the wretched past, hair unfortunately is not �just� hair.
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    Translating conceptual qur�anic metaphor: A cogno-translational approach
    (Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2021) Al-Sowaidi, B; Mohammed, T; Banda, F
    This study will investigate metaphor translation as a natural phenomenon. It will analyze some of the problems involving the translation of metaphorical expressions in two Qur�anic translations, namely, Yusuf Ali's The Holy Qur�an: Text, Translation and Commentary and Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar's The Sublime Qur�an. The analysis in this study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as a cognitive framework of metaphor, which helps conciliate the cultural specificity of metaphors and their transference into linguistically and culturally unrelated languages. The present analysis is based on Mandelblit�s Cognitive Translation Hypothesizes (CTH) (Mandelblit (1995), Maalej�s strategies of translating metaphor (Maalej, 2002, 2008) and K�vecses�s concept of Cultural Variation (K�vecses, 2002,2006).