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Journal articles on the topic "Shona Names"
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Mheta, Gift, Esau Mangoya, and Livingstone Makondo. "Shona personal names of spiritual significance." Nomina Africana: Journal of African Onomastics 31, no. 1 (2017): 01–09. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/na.2017.31.1.1.1304.
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Mhute, Isaac. "Are Names Really Empty: A Look into Shona Dog Names." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 11 (2016): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n11p312.
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Following the popular Shakespearean saying that there is nothing in a name, the paper ventures into the linguistic area of onomastics focusing on uncovering the exact truth behind names in societies. It takes the Shona people’s dog names as a case study and reports on results from a qualitative research that used observations and open ended interviews as data collection techniques. Purposive sampling was employed and saw most of the data coming from districts in Masvingo province such as Zaka, Masvingo and Ndanga. Data were either recorded using a Samsung phone or recorded in the researcher’s notebook before being qualitatively analysed and interpreted. It came out that, though in certain situations names are just tags meant to enhance identification of certain dogs just like the Biblical names that were given to most African children following the coming of the former white masters, almost every Shona dog name has a story behind it.
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Makondo, Livingstone. "Ethnicity and Matriarchal Protest: A Case of Dialoguing Shona Personal Names." Names 56, no. 1 (2008): 10–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175622708x282893.
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Jenjekwa, Vincent. "Post-2000 revitalisation of Shona place names in Zimbabwe: recovering voices from the past." Nomina Africana: Journal of African Onomastics 35, no. 1 (2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/na.2021.35.1.1.1356.
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Matiza, Vimbai Moreblessing, and Limukani T. Dube. "The Cultural and Historical Significance of Kalanga Place Names in Midlands Province of Zimbabwe." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 4, no. 2 (2020): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.4.2.470.
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The discipline of onomastics is still at its infancy yet it constitutes a very important aspect of the day to day survival of a people in the society. Naming is part of oral tradition in African societies, people were never used to write and record things but rather their names. This means that names are a historical record that would carry some aspects of a people's way of life which include their history, beliefs and customs among others. On the same note, Midlands Province constitute of people from different backgrounds mainly Shona and Ndebele. Of interest to this research is the presence of the Kalanga people through some toponyms that are found in the area. In light of this view, this study therefore seeks to identify and unlock the culture and history embedded in these names by looking at the significance of Kalanga place names in Midlands Province. The study argues that place names or toponyms of any people carry with them a history, meaning and significance to particular people that name the places, thus studying the place names in this community can be a valuable tool of unpacking the history surrounding the Kalanga people in Midlands Province in Zimbabwe. Guided by the Afrocentric paradigm, specifically nommoic creativity tenant, the study seeks to explore the cultural and historical significance of Kalanga toponyms in Midlands Province.
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Chimhundu, Herbert. "Early Missionaries and the Ethnolinguistic Factor During the ‘Invention of Tribalism’ in Zimbabwe." Journal of African History 33, no. 1 (1992): 87–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700031868.
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There is evidence from across the disciplines that at least some of the contemporary regional names of African tribes, dialects and languages are fairly recent inventions in historical terms. This article offers some evidence from Zimbabwe to show that missionary linguistic politics were an important factor in this process. The South African linguist Clement Doke was brought in to resolve conflicts about the orthography of Shona. His Report on the Unification of the Shona Dialects (1931) shows how the language politics of the Christian denominations, which were also the factions within the umbrella organization the Southern Rhodesia Missionary Conference, contributed quite significantly to the creation and promotion of Zezuru, Karanga and Manyika as the main groupings of dialects in the central area which Doke later accommodated in a unified orthography of a unified language that was given the name Shona. While vocabulary from Ndau was to be incorporated, words from the Korekore group in the north were to be discouraged, and Kalanga in the West was allowed to be subsumed under Ndebele.Writing about sixty years later, Ranger focusses more closely on the Manyika and takes his discussion to the 1940s, but he also mentions that the Rhodesian Front government of the 1960s and 1970s deliberately incited tribalism between the Shona and the Ndebele, while at the same time magnifying the differences between the regional divisions of the Shona, which were, in turn, played against one another as constituent clans. It would appear then that, for the indigenous Africans, the price of Christianity, Western education and a new perception of language unity was the creation of regional ethnic identities that were at least potentially antagonistic and open to political manipulation.Through many decades of rather unnecessary intellectual justification, and as a result of the collective colonial experience through the churches, the schools and the workplaces, these imposed identities, and the myths and sentiments that are associated with them, have become fixed in the collective mind of Africa, and the modern nation states of the continent now seem to be stuck with them. Missionaries played a very significant role in creating this scenario because they were mainly responsible for fixing the ethnolinguistic maps of the African colonies during the early phase of European occupation. To a significant degree, these maps have remained intact and have continued to influence African research scholarship.
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Mapara, Jacob, and Godwin Makaudze. "The interface between toponyms, hydronyms and geography: The case of selected Shona names from three provinces in Zimbabwe." South African Journal of African Languages 36, no. 2 (2016): 243–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2016.1252028.
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Beach, D. N. "An Innocent Woman, Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896–97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe." History in Africa 25 (1998): 27–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172179.
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The rising of the Ndebele and southwestern and central Shona people against colonial rule in the 1890s has become one of the classic cases of such resistance. Yet, since the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, very little fresh research has been carried out on the subject. This paper re-examines the role of Shona religious authorities in the rising, especially that of the medium of the Nehanda spirit of the Mazowe valley in the central Shona area. In just over a century, the figure of “Mbuya Nehanda” has become the best-known popular symbol of resistance to colonial rule in modern Zimbabwe. She has been commemorated since 1980 in statues, street names, a hospital, posters, songs, novels, and poems, and is soon to be the subject of a full-length feature film. This paper examines the historical basis behind the legend.This legend runs as follows: the historical “Nehanda” was supposed to have been the daughter of the founding ancestor of the Mutapa dynasty, who lived in the fifteenth century. Her ritual incest with her brother Matope gave supernatural sanction to the power of the Mutapa state. After her death, she became a mhondoro spirit, and this spirit possessed a number of mediums (masvikiro, singular svikiro). During periods of possession by the spirit, the svikiro was regarded as speaking with the voice and personality of the original Nehanda and not with her own. In the last part of the nineteenth century one medium, Charwe, was responsible for the organization of resistance to the government of the British South Africa Company and the settlers in the Mazowe valley, and in particular for the killing of H.H. Pollard, Kunyaira, the extremely oppressive Native Commissioner of the area. This resistance began in June 1896, and from then until her capture in late 1897 the Nehanda medium was a major factor in the war. Tried and sentenced to death in March 1898, she refused to convert to Christianity and struggled right up to the moment when she was hanged.
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Makaudze, Godwin. "The significance of selected characters' personal and family names in the Shona novels, Pfumo Reropa and Mubairo." Nomina Africana: Journal of African Onomastics 34, no. 1 (2020): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/na.2020.34.1.2.1351.
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Essenova, K. "RESEARCH OF ACADEMICIAN SHORA SARYBAYEVA ON PRESS LANGUAGE." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 73, no. 3 (2020): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-3.1728-7804.05.
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The article analyzes the scientific achievements of academician Shora Sarybaev about the language of the press. It deals with opinions on violations of literary norms in the use of incorrect translations, and the use of many variant words and non-literary slang in the Kazakh media are presented. Scientist Sh. Sarybaev analyzes the conclusions about the dynamics of the penetration of new words into the literary language in 1920-30. A number of features of the language of newspapers and magazines of the period of independence are discussed in the article of the scientist Sh. Sarybaev "New applications of the language of the media", written in 1999. The language of the press of the society that supported the only ideology of the Soviet era was written in a literary language, with strict stylistic and spelling norms. However, the scientist Shora Sarybaev noted that there are difficulties with the translation of new foreign words in the media. Difficulties arose to give the correct translation of the neologisms. Given the proliferation of new use cases in periodicals, the scientist considered it prudent to use alternative names in newspapers and magazines along with the keyword before Terminсom approval.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shona Names"
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Makondo, Livingstone. "An investigation in anthroponyms of the Shona society." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3045.
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Given names, amongst the Shona people, are an occurrence of language use for specific purposes. This multidisciplinary ethnographic 1890-2006 study explores how insights from pragmatics, semiotics, semantics, among others, can be used to glean the intended and implied meaning(s) of various first names. Six sources namely, twenty seven NADA sources (1931-1977), one hundred and twenty five Shona novels and plays (1957-1998), four newspapers (2005), thirty one graduation booklets (1987-2006), five hundred questionnaires and two hundred and fifty semi-structured interviews were used to gather ten thousand personal names predominantly from seven Shona speaking provinces of Zimbabwe. The study recognizes current dominant given name categories and established eleven broad factors behind the use of given names. It went on to identify twenty-four broad based theme-oriented categories, envisaged naming trends and name categories. Furthermore, popular Shona male and female first names, interesting personal names and those people have reservations with have been recognized. The variety and nature of names Shona people prefer and their favoured address forms were also noted. The study reckons that Shona first names came as a result of unparallel anthroponomastic and linguistic innovation exuded by the Shona people in their bid to tame their reality. The study uses an anthroponym-pragma-semio-semantic decompositional theory, approximation model, contextualized implicature, maxims of brevity and tactfulness as the best approaches for explaining the varied meanings personal names embody. The study argues that it has made significant contributions to the body of knowledge in disciplines such as semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, history, geography, religion, education, philology, morphology and syntax, among others.<br>African Languages<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)
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Penzura, Crymore. "The African philosophical conception of personal naming among the Shona speaking people of Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27843.
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Text in English with summaries in English, Shona and isiXhosa<br>Bibliography: leaves 140-144<br>Personal names carry significant meaning in African cultures. The research critically
argues that among the Shona speaking people of Zimbabwe, given names are not just
mere tags or labels but carry and convey a significant message to the family or society
of the named person. The message is often descriptive of the person named or their
family. It describes the circumstances around the birth of the named or the conditions
of their parents or their country and or their environment. The research further shows
that names derived from socio-cultural experiences may have a plurality of meanings
and also that they may be used to predict or explain something about the person
named, including their parents or environment. Philosophically then, to name is to
confirm, or to negate, and to confer something to the person named or to describe the
circumstances of their birth.<br>Mazita edungamunhu ane chirevo mutsika nemagariro evanhu vemuAfrica. Donzvo
retsvakurudzo ino rinotaura nezvevanhu verudzi rweChiShona munyika yeZimbabwe, richiti
mazita anopihwa vana haangova mazita chete, asi anetsanangudzo yakakosha zvikuru
kumhuri kana kuti munzvimbo yaberekerwa munhu wacho, kana kuti kumuridzi wezita racho.
Tsananguro yacho inotaura nezvemuridzi wezita kana kuti kumhuri yaaberekerwa.
Tsananguro yacho inotsanangudza mamiriro enguva yaberekwa munhu wacho kana kuti tsika
nemagariro evabereki vake kana mamiriro emunyika yaaberekwa kana kuti munzvimbo
yaaberekerwa. Tsvakurudzo ino inoenderera mberi ichitaura kuti mazita evanhu anobva
mutsika memagariro evanhu anoreva zvinhu zvakawanda nekuti dzimwe nguva
anoshandiswa kutaura zvichauya kana kutsanangura nezvemuridzi wezita kana vabereki
vake, dzimwe dzenguva nzvimbo yavanogara. Saka fungidziro inoti, kupa zita kubvumirana
kana kupikisana, kana kuti kugadza chigaro pamunhu kana kuti katsanangudza mamiriro
akaita nguva yaaberekwa.<br>gama lomntu linentsingiselo enzulu kwiinkcubeko zama-Afrika. Uphando lubonisa
ngokucacileyo ukuba phakathi kwabantu baseZimbabwe abantetho isisiShona, igama
alinikwayo umntu asinto nje yokuphawula, koko ngumyalezo obalulekileyo omalunga nosapho
okanye uluntu lwalowo uthiywa igama. Lo myalezo ula ngokuchaza ngalowo uthiywayo
okanye usapho lwakhe. Kuchazwa iimeko ezingqonge ukuzalwa kwakhe okanye imeko
yabazali bakhe, isizwe sakhe okanye indalo ebangqongileyo. Uphando lubonakalisa ukuba
amagama asekelwe kumava enkcubeko nezentlalo anganeentsingiselo eziliqela. Ngaphaya
koko, la magma asenokusetyeniziselwa ukuqikelela okanye ukucacisa okuthile malunga nalo
uthiywayo, abazali bakhe okanye indalo ebangqongileyo. Ngokwefilosofi ke ngoko, ukuthiya
igama kukungqina okanye kukuphikisa, kukubethelela inyaniso ethile ngomntu othiywa igama,
ikwakukuchaza iimeko zokuzalwa kwakhe.<br>Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology<br>M. Phil. (Philosophy)
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Pfukwa, Charles. "The function and significance of war names in the Zimbabwean armed conflict (1966-1979)." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3155.
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This study is a survey of war names adopted by guerrillas during the
Zimbabwean conflict (1966-1979). The study collects, describes and
analyses war names that were used by ZANLA guerrillas in the conflict. It
explores onomastic patterns and processes that influenced these war
names. Names collected from textual sources and from interviews of
former guerrillas are analysed and classified into nine categories. One of
the main findings is that the background of the namer influenced the
naming patterns and processes identified in the study. Another finding is
that most guerrillas named themselves and it was also observed that some
guerrillas have retained their names. The findings, analysed within the
theoretical framework developed earlier from the onomastic and identity
theories, indicate that the war name plays a vital role not only in
concealing the old identity of the guerrilla but also in creating new
identities, which were used as weapons for challenging the enemy and
contesting space. Onomastic erasure and resuscitation are proposed as
partial explanation for the creation of some war names. The study
contributes to onomastic research not only in that it has produced a large
corpus of war names that can be used for further research in that it is a
significant point of reference in onomastic research in Zimbabwe and in
southern Africa, especially in the area of nicknames and war names. It also
lays the foundation for further research on the role of naming patterns and
processes in peace building and conflict resolution in Zimbabwe, on the
southern African subcontinent and elsewhere.<br>Thesis (D. Litt et Phil.)
Books on the topic "Shona Names"
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A dictionary of Chimurenga War names. Africa Institute for Culture, Dialogue, Peace and Tolerance Studies, 2012.
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Crawford, J. R. "Shona Names." In Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351009249-16.
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Hodgson Burnett, Frances. "Chapter X Dickon." In The Secret Garden. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199588220.003.0011.
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The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut...
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Taber, Douglass. "Synthesis of Heteroaromatics." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199764549.003.0066.
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Yasutaka Ishii of Kansai University has developed (J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 8820) a novel route to furans, using a mixed-metal catalyst to effect condensation of an aldehyde or 1,3 diketone such as 1 with an acceptor such as 2 to give the 3-furoate 3. In a complementary approach, Yong-Min Liang of Lanzhou University has found (J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 10276) that diazoacetate 5 will condense with an alkynyl ketone to give the 2-furoate 6. David W. Knight of Cardiff University has shown (Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 7709) that an alkynyl diol such as 7, readily available by dihydroxylation of the corrresponding alkenyl alkyne, cyclized to the furan on exposure to AgNO3 on silica gel. Professor Knight has also (Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 7906) established a route to poly-substituted pyrroles 10, by iodination of alkynyl sulfonamides such as 9. Similarly, Richard C. Larock of Iowa State University found (J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 9643) that I-Cl cyclized methoximes such as 11 to the corresponding iodo isoxazole 12, and Stephen L. Buchwald of MIT uncovered (Organic Lett. 2007, 9, 5521) the cyclization of an enamide such as 13 with I2 to the corresponding oxazole 14. In developing a more efficient route to a new class of materials that he has named “triazolamers”, Paramjit S. Arora of New York University was able (J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 7963) to effect diazo transfer to the amine 15 and subsequent condensation with 16 to give 17, without isolation of the intermediate azide. C. V. Asokan and E. R. Anabha of Mahatma Gandhi University have described (Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 5641) the activation of a ketone 18 followed by condensation with malononitrile 19 to give the pyridine 20. Hans-Ulrich Reissig of the Freie Universität Berlin has established (Organic Lett. 2007, 9, 5541) a complementary three-component coupling of a nitrile 21 with the allenyl anion 22, followed by a carboxylic acid 23 to deliver the pyridine 24. Akio Saito and Yuji Hanzawa of the Showa Pharmaceutical University have reported (Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 6852) the intramolecular Rh-catalyzed cyclization of a methoxime lactone such as 25 to the pyridine 26.
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Fisher, David. "Helium." In Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195393965.003.0007.
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Today we learn at such a young age about the periodic properties of the elements and their atomic structure that it seems as if we grew up with the knowledge, and that everyone must always have known such basic, simple stuff. But till nearly the end of the nineteenth century no one even suspected that such things as the noble gases, with their filled electronic orbits, might exist. Helium was the first one we at Brookhaven looked for in our mass spectrometer, and the first one discovered. This was in 1868, but the discovery was ignored and the discoverer ridiculed. He didn’t care; he had other things on his mind. His name was Pierre Jules César Janssen, and he was a French astronomer who sailed to India that year in order to take advantage of a predicted solar eclipse. With the overwhelming brightness of the sun’s disk blocked by the moon, he hoped to observe the outer layers using the newly discovered technique of absorption spectroscopy. Nobody at the time understood why, but it had been observed that when a bright light shone through a gas, the chemical elements in the gas absorbed the light at specific wavelengths. The resulting dark lines in the emission spectrum of the light were like fingerprints, for it had been found in chemical laboratories that when an element was heated it emitted light at the same wavelengths it would absorb when light from an outside source was shined on it. So the way the technique worked, Janssen reasoned, was that he could measure the wavelengths of the solar absorbed lines and compare them with lines emitted in chemical laboratories where different elements were routinely studied, thus identifying the gases present in the sun. On August 18 of that year the moon moved properly into position, and Janssen’s spectroscope captured the dark absorption lines of the gases surrounding the sun. It was an exciting moment, as for the first time the old riddle could be answered: “Twinkle twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.” The answer now was clear: the sun, a typical star, was made overwhelmingly of hydrogen. But to Janssen’s surprise there was one additional and annoying line, with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers.