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European Journal of Language and Culture Studies

This article examined Pragmatics of Impoliteness in the construction sites: A case study of Mwanz... more This article examined Pragmatics of Impoliteness in the construction sites: A case study of Mwanza region. The study based on Jonathan Culpeper’s impoliteness model (1996) and revised by Culpeper in 2005. Moreover, impoliteness strategies, reasons for using impoliteness, as well as responses for impoliteness in construction sites have been researched. The study is of the view that impoliteness strategies are applied in the construction sites so as to achieve certain goals. This is a qualitative study with the data gathered through observation, interview and focus group discussion. The data have been collected from the seven construction sites. The study concluded that all the five impoliteness strategies (Bald on record, positive, negative, mock or sarcasm impoliteness and withhold politeness) listed by Culpeper were used by the construction workers and there were reasons for using impoliteness strategies some of them were; to raise working morale, to entertain the workers and to pr...

International Journal of Culture and History

This paper examines the linguistic features of village names in Ngara district in Kagera region -... more This paper examines the linguistic features of village names in Ngara district in Kagera region -Tanzania.Itspecifically discusses the meanings, and the morphological and phonological features of Ngara village names. The natives speak two related Bantu languages, namely Kishubi and Kihangaza.The study focuses on village names since they are part of the historical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the given society. Additionally, place names have meaning as argued by several scholars (Anindo, 2016; Buberwa, 2012; Kihara, 2020; Wanjiru-mwita & Giraut, 2020) that nearly all African place names have meanings. Despite having meanings, place names differ in the way they are formed in each society hence, language specific. This uniqueness raised the need to investigate Ngara village names to see what they mean and how they are formed. This is a qualitative paper which employs two theories namely, Frame theory by Fillmore (1985) to define concepts that guided the retrieval of meanings of...

International Journal of Culture and History

This paper focuses on the morphological and syntactic properties of anaphors in Kisukuma, a Bantu... more This paper focuses on the morphological and syntactic properties of anaphors in Kisukuma, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Shinyanga, Mwanza, Simiyu and Geita regions in the south eastern part of Lake Victoria by the people who call themselves βasukuma. The study was guided by three modules of Government and Binding Theory namely: Binding Theory, Government Theory and Case Theory. Qualitative research approach was employed. Data were collected through sentence questionnaires and grammaticality judgments. Four respondents who are native speakers of Kimunakiiya dialect were selected from Isoso and Ndoleleji villages by using snowball sampling basing on their age and language proficiency. The study found that anaphors in Kisukuma exist in two forms: Verbal anaphors and Nominal anaphors. Anaphors in verbal form are expressed by a single form (morph-i-) that plays one role at a time. Intrinsically the form seems to be polysemic in nature, because in addition to encoding reflexive and re...

International Journal of Literature and Arts

South African Journal of African Languages

An endeavor to establish typical lexical categories in individual languages as well as a typology... more An endeavor to establish typical lexical categories in individual languages as well as a typology of word-classes yields contradictory conclusions. In this paper we provide evidence to substantiate the existence of an independent and indispensable open category of adjectives in the Bantu language Nyakyusa. An argument that Bantu languages possess a closed class of adjectives (Dixon 1982; Rugemalira 2008; Segerer 2008) is called to question by the large number of adjectives in Nyakyusa, which provide almost all Dixon's core semantic types. In addition, adjectivization permits establishment of a vast number of adjectives which designate various property-concepts in the language. Such derived adjectives fit well the Dixon's semantic types.

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies

This article examined Pragmatics of Impoliteness in the construction sites: A case study of Mwanz... more This article examined Pragmatics of Impoliteness in the construction sites: A case study of Mwanza region. The study based on Jonathan Culpeper’s impoliteness model (1996) and revised by Culpeper in 2005. Moreover, impoliteness strategies, reasons for using impoliteness, as well as responses for impoliteness in construction sites have been researched. The study is of the view that impoliteness strategies are applied in the construction sites so as to achieve certain goals. This is a qualitative study with the data gathered through observation, interview and focus group discussion. The data have been collected from the seven construction sites. The study concluded that all the five impoliteness strategies (Bald on record, positive, negative, mock or sarcasm impoliteness and withhold politeness) listed by Culpeper were used by the construction workers and there were reasons for using impoliteness strategies some of them were; to raise working morale, to entertain the workers and to pr...

International Journal of Culture and History

This paper examines the linguistic features of village names in Ngara district in Kagera region -... more This paper examines the linguistic features of village names in Ngara district in Kagera region -Tanzania.Itspecifically discusses the meanings, and the morphological and phonological features of Ngara village names. The natives speak two related Bantu languages, namely Kishubi and Kihangaza.The study focuses on village names since they are part of the historical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the given society. Additionally, place names have meaning as argued by several scholars (Anindo, 2016; Buberwa, 2012; Kihara, 2020; Wanjiru-mwita & Giraut, 2020) that nearly all African place names have meanings. Despite having meanings, place names differ in the way they are formed in each society hence, language specific. This uniqueness raised the need to investigate Ngara village names to see what they mean and how they are formed. This is a qualitative paper which employs two theories namely, Frame theory by Fillmore (1985) to define concepts that guided the retrieval of meanings of...

International Journal of Culture and History

This paper focuses on the morphological and syntactic properties of anaphors in Kisukuma, a Bantu... more This paper focuses on the morphological and syntactic properties of anaphors in Kisukuma, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Shinyanga, Mwanza, Simiyu and Geita regions in the south eastern part of Lake Victoria by the people who call themselves βasukuma. The study was guided by three modules of Government and Binding Theory namely: Binding Theory, Government Theory and Case Theory. Qualitative research approach was employed. Data were collected through sentence questionnaires and grammaticality judgments. Four respondents who are native speakers of Kimunakiiya dialect were selected from Isoso and Ndoleleji villages by using snowball sampling basing on their age and language proficiency. The study found that anaphors in Kisukuma exist in two forms: Verbal anaphors and Nominal anaphors. Anaphors in verbal form are expressed by a single form (morph-i-) that plays one role at a time. Intrinsically the form seems to be polysemic in nature, because in addition to encoding reflexive and re...

International Journal of Literature and Arts

South African Journal of African Languages

An endeavor to establish typical lexical categories in individual languages as well as a typology... more An endeavor to establish typical lexical categories in individual languages as well as a typology of word-classes yields contradictory conclusions. In this paper we provide evidence to substantiate the existence of an independent and indispensable open category of adjectives in the Bantu language Nyakyusa. An argument that Bantu languages possess a closed class of adjectives (Dixon 1982; Rugemalira 2008; Segerer 2008) is called to question by the large number of adjectives in Nyakyusa, which provide almost all Dixon's core semantic types. In addition, adjectivization permits establishment of a vast number of adjectives which designate various property-concepts in the language. Such derived adjectives fit well the Dixon's semantic types.