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This study investigated some linguistic variations of the two languages namely, Ila spoken in Namwala, Itezhi-Tezhi, Mumbwa districts in the central parts of Zambia and Tonga spoken in Gwembe, Sinazongwe and Maamba districts in the southern and central parts of Zambia. The aim of the study was to...

This study examined interrogatives in Tonga. In particular, the current study undertook to understand the phonological aspects of interrogative markers, morphological aspects, and their syntactic distributions as well as the role that semantics plays in interrogative constructions within the...

The study is embedded in onomastics, a study of proper names in all aspects from different typologies. The study aimed at establishing the morphological structure, social semiotic aspects and etymology of the Bemba Christian theonyms. Data were drawn from Kasama and Mungwi districts through...

This study investigated the campaign discourse of the 2016 presidential elections in Zambia with a view to showing how rhetorical devices were employed by one Opposition candidate in order to achieve persuasion in his campaign discourse. Specifically, the study focused on the campaign speeches by...

Drawing on both lexical morphology and lexical semantics, the study discursively interrogates the outcome lexical items of the social media discourses and self-asserting narratives. An attempt is made to discursively examine the interplay between technology and grammar. Thus the study brings...

Couched within the broader context of social semiotics and morphological theory, the current study is aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of radio station names in Zambia, as well as establishing the social semiotic forces that undergird the naming systems of radio stations. This was born...

Couched within the broader context of social semiotics and morphological theory, the current study is aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of radio station names in Zambia, as well as establishing the social semiotic forces that undergird the naming systems of radio stations. This was born...

Across all the languages, there are two types of negation: morphological and syntactic. The former refers to negation expressed by a morpheme while the latter is a concept referring to expression of negation by a lexical item. In principle, Bemba uses morphological negation. The study analyses...

This dissertation presents the linguistic landscape of Zambia’s flagship university, the University of Zambia. In keeping with both the custom and recent trends in linguistic landscape theorizations, the study conceived as “The Linguistic Landscape of the University of Zambia: A Social Semiotic...

ABSTRACT The study explored Address forms inform a socio-pragmatic perspective within the framework of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. This research was done in order to assess the socio-pragmatic significance of address forms as they are used in different social contexts. Primary data was...