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Polysemous expressions as nominals
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This study interrogates the use of language by students at tertiary. It focuses on students’ interactions with one another outside classroom setting. The study hypothesizes that the language used by university students display richness and yet complexity of human language. In focus groups, third year students were requested to give words which acco...
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... As Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor (2010) submit, in the communication process, the sender encodes a message and transmits it through an appropriate channel to the receiver who decodes the message and provides feedback. It should be noted that both context and shared knowledge are significant in the process, as Kolobe and Thetso (2019) attest by stating that in most situations of language use, the quality and effect of the communication rely on the contextual knowledge shared by the participants. ...
The aim of this article is to examine the oral Sesotho poem that was used by Basotho boys as a courting strategy. In most African societies, including Sesotho society, boys used to adopt several approaches to propose love to girls. They would perform heroic actions to attract girls, engage in traditional songs and dances in which they would choose potential partners, or recite poems to the girls to express their feelings. While the former were performed in public, there would not be any audience for the latter. In Sesotho, there was one communal poem that was used by boys to propose love. Using textual analysis, the article sets out to explore this popular Sesotho poem by an anonymous poet to understand the language used in it and to interpret the meaning expressed with the chosen diction. The findings reveal the uniqueness and richness of language attained through the use of metaphors in which the poet uses concrete objects to express his abstract feelings. He identifies himself with the four important objects in the daily lives of the Basotho. Through the use of metaphor, the speaker portrays his character as well as the persona of the wife he anticipates as a suitable life partner.
... As Adler, Rosenfeld, and Proctor (2010) submit, in the communication process, the sender encodes a message and transmits it through an appropriate channel to the receiver who decodes the message and provides feedback. It should be noted that both context and shared knowledge are significant in the process, as Kolobe and Thetso (2019) attest by stating that in most situations of language use, the quality and effect of the communication rely on the contextual knowledge shared by the participants. ...
Using textual analysis, the article explores the popular Sesotho courting poem to understand the language used in it and to interpret the meaning expressed with the chosen diction. The findings reveal the uniqueness and richness of language attained through the use of metaphors in which the poet uses concrete objects to express his abstract feelings.
