Shona sentential names : a brief overview / Jacob Mapara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mapara, Jacob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Zimbabwe.

Names, Personal.

Names, African.

Manyika (African people)--Zimbabwe--History.

Manyika (African people).

Manyika (African people)--Zimbabwe--Religion.

Manyika (African people)--Zimbabwe--Social life and customs.

Shona (African people)--Zimbabwe--Social life and customs.

Shona (African people).

Shona (African people)--Zimbabwe--History.

Shona (African people)--Zimbabwe--Religion.

Shona language--Etymology--Names.

Shona language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 163 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book draws on the case of the Shona and other Bantu people of Africa to argue that names are not mere identity tags. Names are an important cultural symbol of the people who give and bear them. The book challenges linguists and other social scientists to pay particular attention to the significance of names in the study of language use in society. Equally, it demonstrates the importance of names as part of the distinctive repertoire of Shona cultural heritage. Each Shona sentential name is a statement about that reality of being Shona.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter I - Introduction""; ""Preamble""; ""Background to the study""; ""Defining Shona naming patterns""; ""Area of Research""; ""The Manyika""; ""Significance of the study""; ""Theoretical framework""; ""Review of Related Literature""; ""Research Design and Methods""; ""Conceptual Hypothesis""; ""Definition of a sentence""; ""Aim of the study""; ""Objectives of the study""; ""Limitations and scope of the study""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter II - Shona Names as Heritage and Cultural Expressions""

""Introduction"" ""Heritage""; ""Names as Heritage and Memory""; ""Names as Cultural Expressions""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter III - The Socio-cultural Names of the Manyika""; ""Introduction""; ""The Socio-cultural Context of Naming among the Shona in Zimbabwe""; ""Discussion of selected names""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter IV - Some Shona Theophoric Sentential Anthroponyms""; ""Introduction""; ""Theophoric names in the colonial period""; ""Some Shona Christian Sentential Names""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter V - Chimurenga names""; ""Introduction""; ""Naming and/in the war of liberation""

""Guerrilla Sentential Names"" ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter VI - Conclusion""; ""References""; ""United Nations Documents""; ""Webliography""; ""Back cover""

Notes:

LC copy signed by author.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789956790791

9956790796

9789956790784

9956790788

OCLC:

853361177