A cognitive stylistics study of The Other Presence and The Hopeless Hopes

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dc.contributor.authorHafeni, Linus Nghilifavali
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-10T12:39:08Z
dc.date.available2020-02-10T12:39:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.descriptionTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Supervisor: Prof Haileleul Zeleke Woldemariamen_US
dc.description.abstractThe research presents a cognitive stylistics study of two Namibian novels: Francis Sifiso Nyathi’s The Other Presence and Salom Shilongo’s The Hopeless Hopes. The novels have been selected because they presented Namibian societal problems from two different Namibian perspectives. The study also argues that only few such Namibian novels have been investigated conceptualising applied linguistic theories such as cognitivism, functionalism and structuralism. To guide the entire stream of the research, the researcher raised three fundamental questions: How does cognitive metaphor help explicate psychological hitches as captured creatively in the two novels? What is the mind’s contribution to conceptualise and comprehend contextual meanings in the two novels? How does content schema contribute to the understanding of the two novels? It is therefore against these three questions that the two novels have been purposefully selected and studied in order to address the gap. Conceptualising and implementing cognitive metaphor, the study also analyses the root causes of societal problems such as unemployment, unfair treatment of people, HIV/AIDS and witchcrafts in the Namibian social fabric. In The Other Presence, it is HIV/AIDS what is referred as the other presence of the other. Shilongo’s The Hopeless Hopes also reveals how Robert and the other fellow ex-combatants gathered at a Big House in Windhoek to hand over their petition to Honourable Zopa. This clearly indicates that the State House is being contextualised to a Big House, while The Founding Father and former President of the country, Honourable Sam Nuyoma referred to as Honourable Zopa. The contextual meaning of the selected novels can thus only understood if the readers of the concerned novel have general background of the Namibian society. Following cognitivism as a broader theoretical framework, the study has also followed a schema theory specifically to explain mental problems and contextual meanings. The study revealed and demonstrated how cognitive stylistics approach to Namibian novels can advance the literary understanding of multiplicities of themes such as culture, taboo, superstition, unemployment, colonialism and corruption.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHafeni, L. N. (2019). A cognitive stylistics study of The Other Presence and The Hopeless Hopes. [Master's thesis, Namibia University of Science and Technology]. Ounongo Repository.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na/jspui/handle/10628/685
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectThesis - Namibiaen_US
dc.subjectCognitive stylisticsen_US
dc.subject‘The Other Presence’en_US
dc.subject‘The Hopeless Hopes’en_US
dc.subjectSchema theoryen_US
dc.subjectCognitive metaphoren_US
dc.subjectMental problemsen_US
dc.subjectContextual meaningsen_US
dc.subjectContent schemaen_US
dc.titleA cognitive stylistics study of The Other Presence and The Hopeless Hopesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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