Fantasy novel as a sub-genre of children’s literature has crossed over to the adult world resulting in the rapid growth of adult fantasy fiction in the last ten years. George R.R. Martins’ A Song of Ice and Fire, consisting ...

This study examined the influence that patriarchy has on society and how it has affected women’s representation in literary works. Thus, the study focused on a feminist stylistics study of the representation of women in ...

This study presents the applications of forensic linguistics with special emphasis on the interpretation of articulated interpretation of intended meanings in written statements, discourse analysis, authorship identification, ...

Crimes related to forgery and falsification of documents are committed for various reasons. The investigation of written documents such as contracts, wills and suicide messages for evidence is significant in today’s world. ...

The study explored the meaning conveyed by the use of different metafunctions of language in Amathila’s Making a Difference and Ekandjo’s The Jungle Fighter. The study, through the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) ...

Gender Based Violence (GBV) has been alarmingly on the increase in the recent past the world over, and it is regarded as a global pandemic issue due to perceived existing inequalities including women dependency on their ...

This paper illustrates that Stephen Alumenda represents the girl-child in a positive way in four of his children’s books. The girl-child is portrayed as active, assertive, wise and independent. Alumenda satirises the ...

During its colonial rule in Namibia, Germany committed what is widely considered to be the first genocide of the twentieth century—the genocide of the Herero and Nama people. Although the said genocide took place over a ...

“Evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago” (Bradley, 1951, p. 206). Even a casual reading, or viewing, of Shakespeare’s plays will show that Iago is indeed Shakespeare’s most evil ...

The main purpose of this study was to explore the impacts of pragmatic knowledge on the effectiveness of oral communication. Both quantitative and qualitative methodology were employed in this study. The study was conducted ...