April 2013
Arranged marriage practices of the Vhavenda community of the Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa
The Vhavenḓa groups in the Vhembe district are related to each other. What is not known is how they come to be related. The reason is that they get married to their relatives. The other question is how family are involved in such marriages? Does any person arrange for someone to marry someone else? This paper seeks to investigate arranged marriage practices within the Vhavenḓa community. In particular, it...
April 2013
On idiomaticity in English and Arabic: A cross - linguistic study
The phenomenon of idiomaticity constitutes a common factor in all living languages and its appreciation is considered the cornerstone of learning and mastering any given language. The semantic, syntactic and pragmatic complexity of idiomatic expressions, in any language, poses a great deal of challenges to learners of that language, and also to translators translating from and/or into it. The main purpose of this paper...
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