Browsing by Author "Buberwa, Adventina"

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    Investigating sociolinguistic aspects of place names in Ruhaya in north-western Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Slaam, 2010) Buberwa, Adventina
    This dissertation reports on the design and findings of a qualitative study of the sociolinguistic factors behind the adoption of place names in the Ruhamba dialect of Ruhaya, a language spoken in north-western Tanzania. The study adopted Discourse Analysis approaches, drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) traditions (Dijk, 2001), with special emphasis on the Speech Act Theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969). The study was based on the assumption that naming relies on phenomena such as socio-economic authority, as well as social dominancy and status, otherwise called power relations. These would be reflected in what the name was derived from in the appropriate time and place (appropriate context). The study findings suggest that Ruhaya place names have meanings which tend to be derived from phenomena such as fauna, flora, crops raised, habitation information, natural terrain and activities carried out in the area to which the name is given. Ruhaya place names also tend to have meanings relating to parts of the human body such as hip, nape, tongue, bald, breasts and heart. It was also observed that Ruhaya place names tended to change overtime due to either change relating to the phenomenon from which the name was derived (i.e. the loss of quality, decrease in quantity or perishing), leadership shifts as well as shifts in human habitation. The change could also be occasioned by shifts relating to what the given community considered to be influential events from time to time. Overall, it is observed that place names were not arbitrary labels but were connected with particular social-cultural phenomena such as community heroes or persons who made notable contributions to the society or people who had achieved particular notoriety or events that had come to be considered unique.
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    Mofolojia ya majina ya mahali ya kiswahili na kihaya katika jamii ya wahaya: uzingativu wa masuala ya kiisimujamii
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2016) Buberwa, Adventina
    Baadhi ya wanaisimu huyatazama majina ya mahali kama maneno yasiyoweza kuchanganuliwa kimofolojia ilhali wengine wakiyatazama kama maneno yaliyojengwa kwa vipashio maalum. Madai haya kinzani ndiyo yaliyoongoza raghba ya mtafiti kufanya utafiti huu unaochunguza mofolojia ya majina ya mahali ya Kiswahili na Kihaya kwa kuzingatia masuala ya kiisimujamii yanayofafanua maumbo hayo. Kwa kutumia mbinu za utafiti zilizoteuliwa, yaani usaili, mijadala katika makundi lengwa na ushuhudiaji, data ya utafiti huu ilikusanywa kutoka katika wilaya za Muleba, Misenyi, Bukoba vijijini na Bukoba Mjini, mkoani Kagera. Vifaa vya kukusanyia data vilivyotumika ni pamoja na kalamu na daftari, kinasasauti, kompyuta pakatwa na kamera. Uchanganuzi wa data kimofolojia umeongozwa na nadharia ya Mofolojia Leksika. Data za utafiti huu zimewasilishwa kwa kutumia majedwali. Hata hivyo, baadhi ya data zimewasilishwa kwa kutumia michoroti ili kudadavua vyema mpangilio wa vipashio vinavyounda majina husika. Uchanganuzi wa vipengele vya kiisimujamii umefanywa kwa kuongozwa na mkabala wa Uchanganuzi Tunduizi Kilongo. Matokeo ya utafiti huu yamedhihirisha kuwa majina ya mahali yaliyochunguzwa yameundwa ama kwa neno moja pekee au kwa maneno ambatani, yaani neno zaidi ya moja. Utafiti huu umethibitisha kuwa vipo vipashio maalum vinavyounda majina ya mahali na vinaweza kuchanganuliwa kimofolojia. Licha ya majina ya mahali kutokana na masuala mbalimbali ya kiisimujamii, majina hayo hayateuliwi kama yalivyo kama wanaisimu waliotangulia walivyodhani. Mbinu za uundaji wa maneno huhusika katika uundaji wa majina ya mahali. Utafiti huu unapendekeza kuwa utafiti kama huu unaweza kufanywa katika maeneo mengine. Aidha, inapendekezwa kuwa majina ya mahali yanaweza kuchunguzwa kimofolojia, kisemantiki, kiisimujamii au kisintaksia.