This PhD thesis involved conducting a phonological and morphological analysis of loanwords from English into Icibemba, a major language spoken in the Northern, Copperbelt and Luapula provinces of Zambia as well as parts of Muchinga and Central provinces. The main aim of this research was to...
Download PDF ↓Names and naming are an important aspect of literature as well as society. They act as tags and or referents to specific entities, both animate and inanimate. H uman beings as the centre of communication are not spared from the value of having names by which they are referred to. Personal names...
Download PDF ↓Mambwe language is spoken in Mbala and Senga districts of Northern Province in Zambia. The language has approximately 500,000 native speakers (CSO, 2010). Therefore, the study was conducted to identify, describe, analyse and write a comprehensive grammar of Mambwe language which is less...
The study is an interpretative analysis of the French to English translation of selected stories from “Les Contes d’Amadou Koumba” to “Tales of Amadou Koumba”. It seeks to analyse the translation in the light of the steps outlined by the interpretative theory of translation and also aims at...
Download PDF ↓The study was a comparative analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Ellen Banda-Aaku’s Patchwork (2011). The aim of the study was to identify the similarities and differences in the two works. In order to achieve the overall aim of the study in line with the objectives,...
Download PDF ↓The study explored the influence of Pentecostalism on students of Chipata College of Education (CCE) in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The study was guided by Emile Durkheim’s Functionalist theory of religion and the following objectives: to establish the influence of Pentecostalism on students...
Download PDF ↓This study investigated proficiency in the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the written pieces of English composition produced by a sample of Grade Twelve (G12) learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) selected from three secondary schools in Kitwe district, Zambia in the 2014 academic...
Download PDF ↓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...
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