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The study framed as “Towards an Understanding of Translanguaging among Traders and Customers at Soweto Market in Lusaka” attempts to address the dearth in literature about real life language practices by using a market place as a point of departure from the focus on translanguaging in bilingual...

The study examined A Grammar of Negation in Tonga. The research was explored in order to investigate the morphological, syntactic and the semantic structure of negation in Tonga. The objectives of the study were; to analyze the morphology of negation in Tonga, to examine the syntactic...

The study examined A Grammar of Negation in Tonga. The research was explored in order to investigate the morphological, syntactic and the semantic structure of negation in Tonga. The objectives of the study were; to analyze the morphology of negation in Tonga, to examine the syntactic...

This dissertation is a Socio-Pragmatic exploration of the research that was conducted in Mpika District of Zambia. It focuses on how social factors such as age, gender, wealth, education level, relationships as well as cultural norms affect the use of idiomatic expressions. The study goes further...

This study, “An Investigation into the Inter-relatedness among Ila, Kaonde, Lenje, Nyanja, Sala, Soli, and Tonga” involved a lexicostatistical survey on the inter-relatedness of the languages mentioned above. According to Doke (1954), Bantu Botatwe refers to the language group comprising the...

This study is informed by the observations and revelations that Bemba compound nouns do alter the meaning of words. At the centre of generating meanings of compound nouns in Bemba is a critical analysis into the grammar of Bemba compound nouns with regard to their morphology, syntax and...

This study is a linguistic analysis of University of Zambia (UNZA) students’ sociolect. The aim of the study is to analyse the linguistic characteristics of UNZA students’ sociolect and how in turn with this sociolect, students construct various social identities as they express group solidarity....

This study investigated the syntax of verb phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data...

The study sought to examine the translation strategies applied to establish meaning equivalence in the process of translating news in English into Nyanja at the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). The objectives of the study were three fold: Firstly, to establish the strategies that...

The current study examined the socio-pragmatic aspect of linguistic avoidance strategies in relation to Silozi taboo language.A socio-pragmatic study deals with communication in its sociocultural context. Linguistic avoidance strategies refer to goal- oriented communicative behaviour where...