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23 April 2025 - AFL1501 Slides

The document explores the relationship between language and identity, emphasizing the role of family and community in shaping one's identity. It discusses the significance of names, clan names, and greetings in cultural contexts, as well as the influence of language on social interactions and religious beliefs. Additionally, it highlights the use of proverbs in conveying life lessons and cultural values within the African worldview.

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23 April 2025 - AFL1501 Slides

The document explores the relationship between language and identity, emphasizing the role of family and community in shaping one's identity. It discusses the significance of names, clan names, and greetings in cultural contexts, as well as the influence of language on social interactions and religious beliefs. Additionally, it highlights the use of proverbs in conveying life lessons and cultural values within the African worldview.

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UNIT 3 and 4

AFL1501
23/04/2025
Language & Identity

• How does language and identity relate?


• Our identity begins with the family
• Surrounding people follow

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What does
language tell IsiZulu
–
us about who Xitsong
a

we are?
Greetin
g – Na

But
how
about –
Eita -
Howzit

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FAMILY
What is family?

Father – Mother – Child (Basic


family)
Father – Mother – Uncle- Aunt –
Son – Daughter – Cousin
(Extended family)
But, what about neighbours,
members of the community?

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NAMES

1 2 3 4
Naming has 1 – Naming 2- Naming to 3. Naming to
different after someone – show certain illustrate certain
meaning and inherit their feelings, or historical period
certain role in character situation (Lerato – (Kleinbooi –
our family: – Bangiswani – Richard
Mapule)

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EXAMING
LANGUAGE
IN TERMS
SOCIAL
GROUPING
How do you use language to represent
different situation i.e greeting your
friends vs your parents

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Clan names are the family

CLAN NAME surnames, and praises (also


called izibongo or izithakazelo)
are poetic, ceremonial names or
AND PRAISES titles used to identify and honor
a specific lineage or clan.

Nodindwa ongezwa – Did not


listen

Wena weNdlovu – Huge in life


and respect

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FORM OF ADDRESS,
GREETINGS AND
GESTURES
• Hello
• Howzit
• Sawubona
• Each culture has its own greetings
• And that greeting should be
complemented by gestures in most
cases
• How do you stop a taxi in Pretoria?
Does it look the same as you stop in
other province

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LANGUAGE
AND
RELIGION

• African belief system


• Respect people who are
no longer with us
• Ancestorial worship
(amadlozi, badimo…)
• Communication in
dreams
• Deviners communicate
with ancestorial

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PROVERBS AND AFRICAN
WORLDVIEW –
RIDDLE AND LANGUAGE

• How African understand life


• How do use the language to teach the
life lesson
• Child discipline and nurturing (ligotjwa
lisese manzi)
• Respect due to women (umuzi wakhiwa
ngumma)
• Lessons learned from the proverbs
(umuntu uvuna akutjalileko) – Everything
you do, has outcome – may be bad or
good depending on what you did or your
action ( cause and effect)

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