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Welcoming remarks by Prof. Tjama Tjivikua at the official handover of engineering equipment and launch of the Materials Testing Institute, Monday 28 June 2010, at 11:00, NUST Campus.
No full textOfficial handover of engineering equipment and launch of the Materials Testing Institute (2010 June 28 : NUST
An analysis of English errors made by NUST students.
No full textThe focus of this study is errors made by students using English at the NUST. An investigation into errors and their causes peculiar to Namibia is significant insofar as it enables the researchers to develop a methodology in teaching to help students avoid committing mistakes that they make normally. This study, therefore, has far reaching implications in English language teaching and pedagogy in the country
The chutnification of English: An examination of the lexis of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children".
No full textMidnight’s Children has been variously described as a Postmodern novel, Post colonial novel, and a novel which uses techniques of magic realism, metafiction and historiography. Having won the Booker Prize, the novel has attracted the attention of many critics for its remarkable use of language and the blending of history and story, fact and fiction and, reality and sur-reality. While the novel has been acclaimed as one of the most ingenious and fascinating piece of writing in the modern age and Rushdie has been described as a “juggler of words” (Narasimhaiah:1995), not many critics have focused on the use of lexical items in the novel. It is my argument that an examination of the lexis of Midnight’s Children within the ambit of Stylistics, will yield a rich dividend, and an analysis and a study of this kind will add new insights not just to the novel but also to the field of lexicology. Lexicologists are mainly concerned with word-formation and multi word expressions in natural language processing. While the analysis and application of lexicology studies tend to revolve around teaching and transfer of culture, an analysis of the kind suggested above would not only extend the field of Stylistics, but also lexicology as well.
Salman Rushdie‟s use of the expression 'chutnification' epitomizes his use of language in the novel. “Chutney” is an Indian dish, which is a side dish and tangy, adding flavour to the main course of any meal. “Chutney” is a noun form and is understood as such in English. By adding “-fication”, Rushdie changes an Indian word into an English one to stand for transformation. Therefore “Chutnification” in the novel means transformation of English having an additional connotation of making the language used in the novel tangy and more flavoursome and exciting. An examination of the lexis of Midnight’s Children will, therefore, be a useful exercise in comprehending Rushdie‟s inimitable style, as well as understanding the ways by which a language grows. The study, in other words, will contribute to, in particular, a critique of Midnight’s Children, and also to the fields of lexicology and morphology
Speech by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the NBIC Business Idea Competition Award Ceremony, Wednesday 19 May 2010, at 11:45, Auditorium 1, NUST Campus.
No full textNamibia Business Innovation Centre Business Idea Competition (2010 May 19 : NUST
Welcoming remarks by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the official handover of the ambulance simulator, Wednesday 17 November 2010, 11h00, NUST Campus.
No full textOfficial Handover of the Ambulance Simulator (2010 Nov. 17 : NUST
Remarks by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, on the occasion of the Logistics Scholarship handover ceremony, NUST Hotel School, 18 May 2010.
No full textLogistics Scholarship Handover Ceremony (2010 May 18 : NUST, Hotel School
Speech by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at Advantage Training's 10th White Collar Crime Conference, on Thursday 3 June 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa.
No full textWhite Collar Crime Conference (10th : 2010 June 3 : Johannesburg, South Africa
Speech by Dr. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, at the official opening of the Digital Namibian Archive (DNA) Sub-regional Workshop, 20 July 2010, Windhoek.
No full textOfficial Opening of the Digital Namibian Archive (DNA) Sub-regional Workshop (2010 July 20 : Windhoek
Cause and effect: A stylistic analysis of the story in Ngugi's "A Grain of Wheat".
No full textAnalysis of story in narrative fiction poses a major challenge to stylisticians. There are several studies of style in fiction, which are mainly micro-linguistic in nature and focus on certain sections of the novel that is being analysed. But up until today, there are has not been a comprehensive analysis of the story of a full length novel because of the unwieldy form of the novel on the one hand, and, on the other, disagreement amongst scholars about identification of individual units that make up the story and how these units mesh together. Stylistic analysis of story in fiction, therefore, is a contested area of study. Narratologists attempt to describe the deep narrative structure or surface narrative structure of different kinds of narrative forms such as: folk tale, fairy tale, epic, myths, short stories etc. While it is exciting to discover the basic underlying patterns of diverse narratives and identifying the universal structure of narratives from various cultures and climes, the reduction of all narrative to its skeletal form divests the immense variety and incredible complexity of a narrative form, such as a novel. This article is an attempt to develop a methodology for the examination of a composite form of the story of a novel drawing upon insights gained from Stylistics and Narratology. Through this analysis, I hope to prove that it is possible to examine the story of a novel thereby emphasizing textual analysis and empiricism as a rationale for stylistic inquiry. For purposes of illustration, I examine A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’O , Kenya’s foremost novelist and one of Africa’s greatest intellectuals
Draft Speech by Mr. Oloff Munjanu, Chairperson of NUST Council at the 15th Graduation Ceremony (2010) at the Safari Court Hotel 09:00, [17 April 2010, Windhoek].
No full textGraduation Ceremony of the NUST (15th : 2010 Apr. 17 : Windhoek, Namibia)Theme for 2010: Re-thinking competitiveness for socio-economic development