Naming the Pandemic: Semantic and Ethical Foundations of HIV/AIDS Shona Vocabulary

dc.contributor.author	Mashiri, Pedzisai
dc.contributor.author	Mawomo, Kenneth
dc.contributor.author	Tom, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned	2006-07-21T06:53:51Z
dc.date.available	2006-07-21T06:53:51Z
dc.date.issued	2002
dc.identifier.citation	Mashiri, Pedzisai, Mawomo, Kenneth and Tom, Patrick. ''Naming the Pandemic: Semantic and Ethical Foundations of HIV/AIDS Shona Vocabulary.'' Zambezia 31.11(2002): 221-234.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10646/446
dc.description.abstract	The article investigates the names that Shona-speaking people in contermporary Zimbabwe create and use in casual communication on the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome(HIV/AIDS), the messages transmitted through these names and the ethical motivation for preferring these names to the English term HIV/AIDS. We refer to the Shona names as indirection verbal strategies that take the form of euphemisms, metaphors, colloquial expressions and slang. However the motivation for preferring an indirect communication mode is best understood in the context of notion politeness that govern human interaction and speech on issue pertaining to sex,illness and and death in Shona society	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Zimbabwe Publications	en
dc.subject	Shona	en
dc.subject	Vocubulary	en
dc.subject	HIV/AIDS	en
dc.title	Naming the Pandemic: Semantic and Ethical Foundations of HIV/AIDS Shona Vocabulary	en
dc.type	Article	en