| dc.creator |
Hamad, Said Makame |
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| dc.date |
2019-08-17T08:37:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2019-08-17T08:37:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2015 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-20T13:54:33Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-10-20T13:54:33Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Hamad, S. M. (2015). Gender construction and stereotyping in Zanzibar kiswahili naming system: A case study of Zanzibar swahili community. |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/709 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/709 |
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| dc.description |
Dissertation (MA Linguistics) |
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| dc.description |
This study is about gender construction and stereotyping in Zanzibar Kiswahili
naming system. The study aimed at investigating the nature of naming system and
how the community constructs and stereotypes gender through naming system in
Zanzibar. The study was guided by three specific objectives which were to examine
the nature of Zanzibar Swahili naming system, to investigate how the community
constructs gender through naming system and to investigate how the community
fosters gender stereotyping through naming system in Zanzibar Swahili community.
This study was guided by the onomastic theory which deals with anthroponymy
concerned with human names including personal names, surnames and sobriquet.
The research used a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the
collection and analysis of data. The instruments of data collection were
questionnaires and interviews. The study revealed that Kiswahili naming system as
one of the cultural social roles has direct relationship with gender in that there are
specific personal names commonly used only for males and other personal names
commonly used only for females. The study also revealed that there is direct
relationship between naming system and gender construction because naming system
in Kiswahili constructs personal names with language specific affixes that identify
the gender of the bearer. Furthermore, the findings exposed that Zanzibar Swahili
community fosters gender stereotyping through Kiswahili naming system by the
common uses of personal names that indicate strength, perfectness and wisdom for
males only while for females, personal names show poverty, weakness, cowardness,
less wisdom and beauty. |
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| dc.publisher |
The University of Dodoma |
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| dc.subject |
Gender construction |
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| dc.subject |
Kiswahili |
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| dc.subject |
Kiswahili naming system |
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| dc.subject |
Naming system |
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| dc.subject |
Zanzibar |
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| dc.subject |
Zanzibar community |
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| dc.subject |
Gender |
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| dc.subject |
Gender stereotyping |
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| dc.subject |
Stereotype |
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| dc.subject |
Onomastic theory |
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| dc.title |
Gender construction and stereotyping in Zanzibar kiswahili naming system: a case study of Zanzibar swahili community |
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| dc.type |
Dissertation |
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