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A linguistic analysis of the IsiZulu variety of tsotsitaal in the Mandeni district in KwaZulu-Natal.
Gumede, Zempilo Silindokuhle
Gumede, Zempilo Silindokuhle
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The linguistic analysis of the isiZulu variety of Tsotsitaal in the Mandeni district in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) investigates the morphological, syntactic and semantic features (including borrowing) of this variety in relation to standard isiZulu. The study also investigates the role of Mandeni Tsotsitaal towards language development in isiZulu and furthermore aims to contribute linguistically towards other studies already done on Tsotsitaal varieties in South Africa. The researcher purposefully sampled 57 community members in the Mandeni area. She used both the quantitative and qualitative research approach, also involving text analysis. The responses from 50 disseminated questionnaires offered a qualitative analysis in the form of a sociolinguistic profile of the Mandeni variant of Tsotsitaal. The dissemination of questionnaires and the recording of four conversation discourses of seven Mandeni Tsotsitaal speakers occurred almost during the same time span. These transcribed discourses formed the corpus base of linguistic analysis. The quantitative approach was used to convert the qualitative questionnaire data, based on frequency of response type into percentage. Relevant sociolinguistic data, in the form Tsotsitaal lexical examples and views on grammatical aspects rendered by respondents, for instance, supplemented the linguistic corpus based data. The study revealed that morphologically, Mandeni Tsotsitaal was mostly constituted in alignment with isiZulu. However, exceptions occurred by means of unusual concordial agreement in the form of noun class shift (from class 1a to class 5); indefinitenes (marked by the class 10 concord); reversed derivational patterns (e.g. from nouns to verbs) and the use of foreign bound morphemes. Syntactically, Mandeni Tsotsitaal sentence structure did not differ from that of isiZulu, displaying typical subject, verb, object (SVO) patterns, for instance.
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Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of magister Technologiae: Language Practice in the department of Applied Languages Faculty of Humanities Tshwane University of Technology.
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2017-08-01
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Tshwane University of Technology
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IsiZulu Tsotsitaal, Linguistic Analysis, Mandeni District
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