UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020076
Frans Dokman
{"title":"African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice, written by Pascah Mungwini","authors":"Frans Dokman","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75879023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020074
Gastor Mapunda
{"title":"“Uc4c 2FA8” – A Linguistic Analysis of Sayings on Bajaji Passenger Tricycles in Dar es Salaam City","authors":"Gastor Mapunda","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020074","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The three-passenger tricycle, known as bajaji in Tanzania, is a popular means of public transport in Dar es Salaam. This popularity may be attributed to their affordable fares due to their efficient fuel consumption, short wait-time for passengers, and their slim size which allows them to slyly jump traffic queues. Many bajajis are inscribed with sayings that carry different messages in the form of texts, pictures, or a combination of both. Investigating these sayings reveals the motivation for writing them, their linguistic features, their sociolinguistic contexts of production, and various functions they serve. The main findings are that bajaji sayings carry different linguistic features, such as SMS features, slang, misspelling, different languages, and leetspeak spelling. The social functions which they serve include enthusing, entertaining, and instructing. The shortcomings of some of these inscriptions include the fact that some feature insulting language, and some celebrate and thereby may encourage selfish behaviour.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86654345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020078
H. M. Njozi
{"title":"Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania, written by Hansjorg Dilger","authors":"H. M. Njozi","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73784433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020071
A. Mnenuka
{"title":"Ufanano wa Mtoto wa Laana Kumuua Babaye katika Nyakiiru Kibi na Mfalme Edipode: Dhihiriko la Umageuko au Msambao?","authors":"A. Mnenuka","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020071","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Kisa kinachoelezwa katika simulizi ya Edipode katika tamthilia ya Mfalme Edipode (Sofokile, 1971) kinafanana kwa karibu sana na kisa kinachosimuliwa katika Utenzi wa Nyakiiru Kibi (Mulokozi, 1998). Sababu kubwa zilizochangia kufanana kwa simulizi hizi mbili zinaweza kuelezwa kwa kuzingatia misingi ya kinadharia, hususan Nadharia ya Mageuko na Nadharia ya Msambao. Wakati Nadharia ya Mageuko ikidai kuwa simulizi yoyote ile ni matokeo ya mabadiliko ya ndani ya jamii yanayochagizwa na mazingira, Nadharia ya Msambao inasisitiza kuwa simulizi huenea kutoka sehemu moja hadi nyingine; kamwe haiwezekani simulizi mbili zinazofanana kuibuka katika jamii mbili ambazo hazijawahi kukutana. Makala hii imechunguza sababu za kufanana kwa visa katika simulizi teule kwa kutumia misingi ya nadharia hizo mbili. Kwa kuzingatia hoja mbalimbali, imehitimishwa kuwa simulizi ya Nyakiiru Kibi, pamoja na kutungwa takribani karne 24 baada ya ile ya Edipode, si kiatani cha Edipode. Simulizi hii imechimbuka katika eneo la Maziwa Makuu na inaonekana ni tukio linalofungamana na historia ya jamii husika huku ikijumuisha visakale hapa na pale.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80398361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020073
P. Malangwa, Aaron A. Mukandabvute
{"title":"A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Speech Errors in Kiswahili","authors":"P. Malangwa, Aaron A. Mukandabvute","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020073","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Due to the lack of cohesive data in linguistics revealing how the human brain functions, researchers make use of various disciplines including biology, neuroscience and psycholinguistics to investigate the relationship between language and the brain. Within the purview of psycholinguistics, this study presupposes optimality theory and Levelt’s theory of speech production, in order to analyse speech errors committed by non-brain damaged speakers of Kiswahili. These are mistakes made inadvertently during episodes of normal speech articulation. Speech errors are a natural and universal phenomenon across all human languages. Alongside the conventions constituting language games, speech errors can provide insightful evidence of intricate processes in the mental lexicon essential to speech production generally. It is noteworthy that the bulk of speech errors analysed in this study were premature cut-offs, since the speakers corrected their speech after their errors.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75813063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020077
R. McNamara
{"title":"Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies: Rethinking Northern Ireland and South Africa, written by Adrian Guelke","authors":"R. McNamara","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78744449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020075
Ndumiso Dladla
{"title":"Africa beyond Liberal Democracy: In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Reginald M. J. Oduor","authors":"Ndumiso Dladla","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81381637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020079
E. Mwakibete
{"title":"Music in Human Experience: Perspectives on a musical species, edited by Jonathan Friedmann","authors":"E. Mwakibete","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86042841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020072
L. E. Kombe
{"title":"Dhima za Kipragmatiki za Kiunganishi na Baina ya Vishazi Ambatani katika Lugha ya Kiswahili","authors":"L. E. Kombe","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020072","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Makala hii inalenga kufafanua dhima za kipragmatiki zinazodokezwa kwa kiunganishi ‘na’ baina ya vishazi ambatani katika lugha ya Kiswahili. Dhima hizo huonyesha mahusiano yaliyopo baina ya vishazi vilivyoambatanishwa kwa kiunganishi hicho. Makala hii inaongozwa na nadharia ya Uhusiano ya Sperber na Wilson ambayo inahusu utambuzi wa binadamu na mawasiliano. Data zilizotumika katika makala hii zimepatikana katika machapisho ya kifasihi, hotuba na magazeti. Makala imeonyesha kuwa kiunganishi ‘na’ kina dhima mbalimbali za kipragmatiki ambazo ni uongezi, usababishi, ukinzani, usambamba na ufafanuzi. Dhima hizo ni fasiri ya mahusiano yaliyopo baina ya vishazi ambatani ambayo hayakusemwa kwa uwazi. Makala imeonyesha kuwa kiunganishi ‘na’ ni kiashiria muhimu cha kiisimu kinachomwongoza mshiriki wa mazungumzo kupata fasiri iliyokusudiwa kwa kudhibiti mchakato wa ufahamu. Pia, makala imeonyesha kwamba kiunganishi ‘na’ hutumika sambamba na viashiria vingine vya kiisimu na vya kiulimwengu kuashiria fasiri mahususi iliyokusudiwa baina ya vishazi vilivyoambatanishwa.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84286575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}