Browsing Humanities by Subject "Identity"
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Against all odds : the status of Fanagalo in South Africa today
(North-West University, 2013)Sub-cultural languages in South Africa – languages which do not enjoy official status amongst other qualities – have not received much attention academically. Existing theories of maintenance and shift accommodate mainstream ... -
An appreciative inquiry to strengthen intellectually challenged adolescents' sense of self within familial relationships : a mixed methods study
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The self can be regarded as a complex psychological structure that is constantly evolving and becoming; it is constructed and re-constructed in family relations and through shared social experience. Within a family, people ... -
The articulation of context and identity in U–Carmen eKhayelitsha
(North-West University, 2012)The primary focus of this qualitative research project is on the articulation of contexts and identity in operatic texts. In literature, postmodern appropriations and re-writings of classic nineteenth-century texts have ... -
Aspects of moral education in Bhaca mamtiseni and nkciyo initiation rituals
(North-West University, 2010)The main objective of this mini–dissertation is to investigate the basic form and content of moral education as it manifests itself in the mamtiseni and nkciyo female initiation rituals of the Mount Frere region of the ... -
Castaways and colonists from Crusoe to Coetzee
(North-West University, 2012)Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the present, and the rational from the ... -
The Cherry Orchard transposed to contemporary South Africa : space and identity in cultural contexts
(North-West University, 2009)The transposition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (originally published in Russian in 1904) to contemporary South Africa in Suzman's The Free State (2000) is based on the corresponding social changes within the two contexts. ... -
The creation of identity through dialogue in Se se jeleng rre by J.M. Ntsime
(North-West University, 2007)Dialogue, as the central constitutive element of drama, to a large extent also contributes to delineating characters and to affirming their identity. This dissertation is an attempt to investigate how dialogue creates ... -
Die estetiese konkretisering van herinneringe in die konseptuele installasiekuns van Willem Boshoff
(North-West University, 2011)This study focuses on the way in which Willem Boshoff aesthetically con-cretized the historical memories of Afrikaners and their influence on their notion of power and identity formation. For this purpose a selection was ... -
'n Fenomenologiese studie oor ouer dames se subjektiewe ervaring van eensaamheid
(North-West University, 2009)This article investigates the experience of loneliness among a group of elderly ladies. Elderly persons are making up an increasing portion of the population. Research is therefore important, because loneliness is a threat ... -
The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens
(North-West University, 2008)The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain moment in time. This concept of reality implies an ...