Language use by tertiary students: The case of the National University of Lesotho
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Communication, Language creativity, Communicative competence, Componential theory of creativity
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This study interrogates the use of language by students at tertiary. It focuses on students’ interactions with one another outside classroom setting. The study hypothesizes that the language used by university students display richness and yet complexity of human language. In focus groups, third year students were requested to give words which according to them have acquired new meanings on campus as compared to their common use anywhere else. Thus, such words should be believed to have their ‘campus’ meaning versus their ‘home’ meaning on the basis that their campus meanings might only be understood amongst university students while at the same time would be given a different meaning when used outside the university. Content analysis was done drawing on the underpinnings of communicative competence and componential theory of creativity frameworks. Data yielded significant patterns of language use including polysemy, among tertiary students; therefore, the study concludes that students’ exploitation of language is attributive of their communicative competence and creativity.
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Crystal, D. (1987). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Greene, J. O. and Burleson, B. R. (Eds). (2008). Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills. New Jersey: Taylor & Francis e-Library.
Harvey, P. &Ahmann, E. (2016). Validation: a family-centred communication skill. Nephrol. Nurse Journal, 43(1), 61-66.
Hsieh, H. & Shannon, S. E. (2005). ‘Three approaches to qualitative content analysis’.
Huebsch, J. C. (1995). Communication Skills. Pretoria: Kagiso Publishers.
Hurford, J., Heasley, B. & Smith, M. (2007). Semantics: A Coursebook. (2nded.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Mahmud, M. M. (2014). Communication aptitude and academic success. Journal of Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences, 13(4), 125-133.
McCroskey, J. C., Booth-Butterfield, S. & Payne, S.K. (1989). Impact of communication apprehension. Communication Quarterly.
Meyer, C. B. (2001).A Case in case study methodology. Field Methods, 13(4),329-352. [jashotta.tripod.com/case.pdf].
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Nerlich, B. (2003). Polysemy: past and present. In Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language. Nerlich, Z., Todd, V., Herman, D. & Clarke, D. 49-76. Berlin: Moiuton de Gruyter.
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Pearson, J. C., Nelson P. E., Titsworth, S. & Harter, C.(2003). Human communication. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Romaine, S. (1992). Language, education and development. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Roze Des Ordons, A. L., Doig, C. L., Couillard, P. & Lord, J. (2017). From communication skills to skillful communication: A longitudinal integrated curriculum for critical care medicine fellows. Academic Medicine, 92(4), 501-505.
Samovar, L. & Porter, R. (2001). Communication and Cultures. Wadsworth; Thompson Learning.
Sandelowski, M. (2010).What’s in a name? Qualitative description revisited. Res. Nurse Health, 33, 77-84.
Stake, R. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. 1000 Oak: Sage Publication.
Steinberg, T. (2000). An Introduction to Communication Studies. Cape Town: Juta and Co. Ltd.
Taylor, J. R. (2006). Polysemy and the lexicon. In Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives. Achard, K. G., Dirven, R. &Ruizde, M. I. (Eds.) 51-80.
Thompson, N. (2011). Effective Communication: A Guide for the People professions. (2nded.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wiemann, J. M. (1997). Explication and test of a model of communicative competence. Journal of Human Communication Research, 3, 195-213.
Yahaya, A. & Ramli, J. (2009). The relationship between self-concept and communication skills towards academic achievement among secondary School students in Johor Bahru.
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2019-08-09
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Kolobe, D. ’Maboleba, & Thetso, D. ’Madira. (2019). Language use by tertiary students: The case of the National University of Lesotho. LINGUA : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pengajarannya, 16(2), 157-174. https://doi.org/10.30957/lingua.v16i2.598
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