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Ntshinga, Thabazi. 1996. Gender In Xhosa Proverbs: Women's New Expressions Of Emancipatory Concerns. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 27 (1) : 7–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emancipatory linguistics | gender | proverb | stereotype | women's language

Language as a subject

Xhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses how Xhosa women have been coining new proverbial expressions of emancipatory concerns that fit more precisely certain aspects of their modern lives and criticize the old misogynist proverbial stereotypes.