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Mahwasane, Mutshinyani Mercy and Thambatshira Johannes Tshifaro. 2019. New-born baby naming practices of the Vhavenda: A sociolinguistic analysis perspective. South African Journal of African Languages 39 (2).
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
baby talk | communication | critical discourse analysis | ethnography of speaking | message1 | mocking | naming1
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper deals with Vhavenda new-born baby naming practices. Name-givers used to transfer inherent communicative messages through these names, like e.g. mocking.