The main aim of this study, A Feminist Reading of The Bluest Eye, is to show the miserable life experiences of black American women. And to demonstrate essentially how black women writers use their literary productions to tell the stories of black women who try to find out the truth about them and...

13762. Documentation And Description Of Code Switching In Oromiffa And Harari Language

In a multi lingual community like Ethiopia, people often switch from one language to another in their daily conversations and code-switching often reflects the social or cultural identities of the speakers. The switch to a particular language in the bilingual dialogue can also be employed as an...

13763. Cultural And Linguistic Westernization The Case Of Dressing Hair Style And Language Use Among Aau Students

The main objective of this study is to examine the extent of cultural andrnlinguistic westernization in Addis Ababa University among 6 kilo campusrnstudents and analyze its effect on indigenous languages and cultures. Tornachieve this objective data were gathered from 213 students...

13764. Catalogue Of Some Selected Arabic Manuscripts In Dr. Jeylan Kadir Private Collection

The philological study of Arabic manuscripts in Ethiopia in general and the collecting andrncataloguing of Arabic manuscripts in particular has been neglected, though some foreign andrnlocal scholars have tried to fill the gap.rnThe main aim of this research is to give an insight about some of the...

13765. Language Use In Main Linguistic Domains In Kemissie Town

The purpose of this study is to describe language use patterns for the main linguisticrndomains in Kemissie town. The study is mainly based on information gathered throughrna questionnaire distributed among 214 randomly selected respondents.rnThe findings show that Kemissie is a multilingual town...

13766. Content Analysis Into The Manuscript Of Ay Ibrhm Gie (1909-1989) Kitbu Mawhibatu Il Waf Biar T A-if

This thesis presents a philological and content analysis of the Arabicrnmanuscript KitÄbu Mawhibatu á¸il WafÄâ€™ BiÅ¡ará¸¥ á¸ŽÄt aÅ¡-Å ifÄ written by Å ayá¸«rnIbrÄhÄ«m GiÅ¡e. The manuscript deals with the life and times of ProphetrnMuá¸¥ammad with...

13767. Issues In The Use Of Kafi Noonoo As A Medium Of Instruction The Case Of Kafa Zone Primary Schools

Improvement in the provision of quality KMI is emphasized as one of the desired out come of this study. As language is foundational to all learning, it is imperative that the greater concern here is the use of Kafi Noonoo as MOI in primary schools of Kafa Zone and to examine the current problems...

13768. Grammatical Description And Documentation Of Majang

This research aimed at describing and documenting of Majang. Majang is one of the languages in the Nilo-Saharn language phayla, in the Chari-Nile families, under the East Sudanic subdivision in the members of Surmic language group. It is the only representative of North Surmic branch. The speakers...

13769. Grammatical Sketch Of Wolane Based On Documentation Of Wolane Riddles

The purpose of this thesis is to show basic description and theoretical explanations about Wolane with the theory of minimalistof minimalist ??? has been employed.rnThis research has five chapters. The first chapter provides general remarks the statement of the research, objective of the research,...

13770. Developing Amharic Spoken Dialogue System A Hybrid Approach

This research attemps to propose an approache to make deciscions under uncertainity forrndesigning a dialogue manager for Amharic spoken dialogue system, Amharic as under-resourcedrnlanguage. A prototype Amharic Spoken Dialogue System was implemented on hotel andrnrestaurant address information...

13771. Documentation And Description Of The Ethnobotany And Ethnozoology Of The Zay Ethnolinguistic Group

The Zay people are known for their interaction with plants and animals in which their traditional knowledge, culture and language are expressed. However, despite the existence of rich indigenous practices related to the ethnobotany and ethnozoology of this ethnolinguistic group, this people remain...

13772. Forms And Functions Of Impersonal Passive In Muher

The central theme of this study is to provide the different forms and functions of the impersonal passive verb forms in the Muher language. To address the objective the thesis is organized in four chapters. Chapter one consists of the introduction to the linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of...

13773. Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Mechanism Among The Inhabitants Of Gwangwa And Debate Weredas

The central focus of this study was to explore and document the traditional peace making process among the inhabitants of Gwangwa and Debatâ€™e Weredas. The study attempted to see the different performances of this process in Agaw, Shinasha, Amhara, Gumuz and Oromo in general and among them in...

13774. Structure Of Determiner Phrase In Geez

This study is devoted to structures of determiner phrase in Geâ€Ÿez in the light of thernMinimalist Program. It focuses on descriptions of words, phrases, sentences and theirrnsyntactic projections. DP in Geâ€Ÿez is formed by merging a determiner (as head) and arncomplement (NP). The...

13775. Ideophones In Oromo

This study aims at describing ideophones in Oromo. Oromo ideophones are different from other lexicon and form their own open word class. They express different degrees and manner of feelings, actions, and events. In this study both secondary and primary sources including the intuition of the...

13776. Documentation And Description Of Tense Aspect And Mood In Gwama

This thesis deals with the documentation and description of TAM (tense, aspect and mood) in Gwama, a Koman (Nilo-Saharan) language of southwestern Ethiopia. It has two parts. In the first part, after an introductory section on phonology and transcription, I survey first the pronouns, then the TAM...

13777. Language Use And Language Attitude In Aleta Wondo Woreda

The primary purpose of the study was to investigate language use and language attitude in Aleta Wondo Woreda.To conduct these study different research participants were involved. The main data gathering tool was questionnaires and focus group discussion, interview, and observation were used as...

13778. Child Language And Baby Talk In Amharic

The child language lexicon in Amharic is not properly recorded. This created arnresearch gap in the study of the phonological and morphological features ofrnchild language in Amharic This study describes phonological, morphological andrnsemantic features of the child language lexicon in Amharic....

13779. Survey Of Main Linguistic Aspects Of Gojjam Amharicas Compared To Addis Ababa Amharic

This study deals with two varieties of Amharic, namely Gojjam andrnAddis Ababa, in the form of comparison. Its main objective is torndescribe the peculiar linguistic features of Gojjam Amharicatrnphonological, morpho-syntactic and lexical level. To accomplish thisrnstudy, introspection, informant...