The main aim of this study was to identify criteria for the adjudication ("judging": American English) of academic debate. Criteria were identified by an initial study in comparative literature in order to arrive at ...

The objective of this study is to give some perspective on cultural growth of the factors which influenced the development of the culture of the white inhabitants of Vanderbijipark from 1942 up to 1992. The issue under ...

The Gatsrand (as a series of ridges) is not only a well-known geographical feature in the Western Transvaal but also features prominently as a definite area in the settlement history of the Whites in the Transvaal. In fact, ...

In the face of the supposed anti-referentiality of postmodernist fiction, the novels of Peter Ackroyd show a return to referentiality. This dissertation contends that this return to referentiality is in fact an attempt to ...

Onder die opskrif "Grondliggende aspekte van toonsimboliek vir hierdie studie" word in die inleiding 'n uiteensetting gegee van wat ons verstaan onder toonsimboliek. Onder andere word twee denkrigtings in hierdie verband ...

The distinction between the so-called main and auxiliary verbs in Afrikaans is not drawn in the same manner by all linguists. The conclusions reached often do not take into account the nature and character of the functional ...

In this study it proved by means of a short historical review that Afrikaans is the oldest Western "African" language in Namibia. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Afrikaans was introduced, and ...

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This thesis focuses on the theory and practice of language editing in Afrikaans. However, this is only an introductory study and in no way an in depth study. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the ...

In Chapter 1 the simultaneous use of code switching and intonation is mentioned as a strategy to convey speakers' intention. Conversationalists make use of this strategy in an specific ethnic and conventionalized way. ...