Uhlahlelo-mhlahlandlela lwemibhalo yegeneri yezepolitiki ephephandabeni lesiZulu

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to do an in-depth analysis of genre-texts of political articles innewspapers. The genre theoretical approach is employed as framework for analysing thelinguistic, rhetorical and discourse properties of isiZulu texts, giving a demonstration of amore general theory of genre analysis in writing, advanced by different writers. The genrebasedapproach to literacy and language teachingwas explored. A general overview wasgiven of genre in folklore, genre in linguistics, genre in rhetoric and general description ofgenres was provided.The parameters of writing, that is the who writes, what, to whom, where, when, why andhow, were utilised in each text under investigation. These parameters were used toassess the communicative writing competence of the author of each text. Aspects of thetext analysis such as information structuring, topic structuring, coherence and cohesion,cognitive move structure and structural description have been employed.This study presents the findings of the analysis of the lIanga newspaper texts bydescribing the critical analysis of textlinguistic aspects through the examination of genretext and outcomes-based language teaching in Curriculum 2005.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University