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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...

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...

The study was a mixed method involving both qualitative and quantitative methods. The population comprised of all the Grade five teachers and learners in Chongwe district. The sample size consisted of 256 participants. Random sampling was used to select eight (8) schools from the district and a...

The study was a mixed method involving both qualitative and quantitative methods. The population comprised of all the Grade five teachers and learners in Chongwe district. The sample size consisted of 256 participants. Random sampling was used to select eight (8) schools from the district and a...

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 qualitative study examined the attitude of non-native cinyanja teachers and parents towards the use of cinyanja as a medium of instruction in Chilanga district. The study was carried out because of the 2013 new language policy in the Zambian education system which advocates for the use of a...

Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6...