The main focus of the study was to investigate on women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipal Council, which is found in Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. This paper focuses on two specific objectives, namely to identify women’s hairstyle names and to find out the structural patterns of women’s hairstyle names. The study is a qualitative study guided by onomastic theory of naming and morpheme-based theory. The study employed descriptive research designs. Semi-structured interview and observation methods were used to collect data, where 16 respondents who were obtained through snowball and convenience sampling techniques. The findings reveal that, women’s hairstyles have meanings which are either denotative or connotative or both. They are derived from different sources such as insects, number, appearance, parts of human body, animal body parts, flora, insecticides, land forms, social events and names of famous people. Therefore, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni are deliberately created, not accidentally constructed. Moreover, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipality possess morphological and syntactic patterns. Under morphological structure, women’s hairstyle names are in free morphemes, affixation, compounding and reduplication. Syntactically, women’s hairstyle names have noun phrases and sentential structures. In relation to the data from the field, the paper concludes that there is no rigidity on women’s hairstyle names compared to other kinds of names such as personal names. This is because women’s hairstyle names are replaced or used interchangeably with other hairstyle names which mean the same.
| Published in | International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 12, Issue 2) |
| DOI | 10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11 |
| Page(s) | 71-85 |
| Creative Commons |
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Copyright |
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Science Publishing Group |
Hairstyle, Women’s Hairstyles, Name Giver, Rasta, Plaiting Thread, Morphological Patterns, Syntactic Patterns
| [1] | Agyekum, K. (2006). The sociolinguistic of Akan personal names. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 15(2), 206-235. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v15i2.24 |
| [2] | Alasli, M. (2019). Toponym’s contribution to identity: The case of Rabat. International Cartographic Association, 2 (3), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-3-2019 |
| [3] | Anindo, C. (2016). A morphosemantic study of toponyms: Lulogooli place names. [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nairobi. |
| [4] | Batoma, A. (2006). African ethnonyms and toponyms: An annotated bibliography. Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, 10 (1), 1- 40. Htpps://ir.uiowa.edu/ejab/vol10/iss1/1 |
| [5] | Buberwa, A. (2018). Kiswahili personal names selection in Tanzania: A sociolinguistic analysis. Cardiovascular Sciences, 5 (3), 157. |
| [6] | Caesar, R. (2019). A Morphosyntactic analysis of Dangme allusive names. Journal of Universal Language, 20, (2), 53-93. |
| [7] | Charwi, M. Z. (2019). A semantic analysis of personal name in Datooga society. Ethnologia Actualis, 19 (1) 90-105. Htpps://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0011 |
| [8] | Elias, T., Mpobela, L. & Tibategeza, E. R. (2023). A linguistic study of village names in Ngara District, Kagera Region, Tanzania. International Journal of Culture and History, 10 (1), 32-59. htpps://doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v10il.20695 |
| [9] | Hacken, P. (2016). The Semantics of Compounding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| [10] | Helleland, B. (2012). Place names and identities. Oslo Studies in Languages, 4(2), 95-116.https://www.journals.uio.no/osla |
| [11] | Jenjekwa. V. (2018). A toponymic perspective on Zimbabwe’s post-2000 toponymy (Third Chimurenga). [PhD thesis]. University of South Africa. |
| [12] | Kabaso, F. (2016). A morphological and semantic analysis of nicknames in Ng’umbo. University of Zambia. |
| [13] | Kahigi, K. (2019). Principles of Semantics and Pragmatics of Kiswahili. (2nd ed.). Dar es Salaam: KAUTTU. |
| [14] | Kripke, S. (1972). Naming and Necessity: The Philosophy of Language (3rded). New York: Oxford University Press. |
| [15] | Legěre, K. (2009). Plant Names in the Tanzanian Bantu Language Vidunda: Structure and Some Etymology. University of Gothenburg. |
| [16] | Letsoela, P. M. (2015). A semantic analysis of Sesotho place names: Evidence from bus stop names. International Journal of English Language Translation Studies, 10(1) 1-8. https://www.eltsjournal.org |
| [17] | Lorraine, K. & Suk, K. (2015). African women’s hairstyles as communication media – A comparison between young and old women’s hairstyles. The Research Journal of the Costume Culture, 23 (6), 1051-1060. https://dx.doi.Org/10.7741/rjcc.2015.23.6.1051 |
| [18] | Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| [19] | Malande, O. J. (2011). What is in a name? An analysis of the semantics of Lulogooli personal names. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1 (20), 211-218. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350556881 |
| [20] | Matshego, L. (2020). A History of African Women’s Hairstyles. Retrieved from https:/www.africa.com |
| [21] | Nadarajan, S. (2006). A crosslinguistic study of reduplication. Arizona working papers in SLATS, vol 13, 36-53. |
| [22] | Owu-ewie, C, Obeng, P. & Hammond, C. (2021). Morphosyntactic analysis of some Akan person names. International Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Studies, 6 (4), 30-46. |
| [23] | Ramaeba, G. N (2019). A comparative study of linguistic and social aspects of personal names in Botswana and Scotland. [Doctoral Thesis]. University of Glasgow. |
| [24] | Raper, P. E. (2012). The Portuguese contribution to South African toponymy. ScientiaMilitaria - South African Journal of Military Studies 18(3). |
| [25] | Schlucker, B. and Ackermann, A. (2017). The morphosyntax of proper Names: An overview. University of Leipzig. |
| [26] | Schotsman, P. & Bryceson, D. (2006). Dar es Salaam place names: Mapping urban physical growth and moral value transformation. Tanzanian Journal of Population Studies and Development, 13(2), 29-68. https://www.academia.edu/42209244 |
| [27] | Sockcěvićová, H. (2015). An analysis of compound plant names. [Bachelor’s thesis, University of South Bohemia]. |
| [28] | Van Goethem, C. (2020). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Universite Catholique de Louvain-UCLoivain. Oxford University Press. |
APA Style
Pius, A., Tibategeza, E. R., Ligembe, N. N. (2024). A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 12(2), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11
ACS Style
Pius, A.; Tibategeza, E. R.; Ligembe, N. N. A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names. Int. J. Lang. Linguist. 2024, 12(2), 71-85. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11
AMA Style
Pius A, Tibategeza ER, Ligembe NN. A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names. Int J Lang Linguist. 2024;12(2):71-85. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11
Share This Article
Twitter
Linked In
Facebook
Copy
Download@article{10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11,
author = {Agnes Pius and Eustard Rutalemwa Tibategeza and Nestory Nyamwala Ligembe},
title = {A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names},
journal = {International Journal of Language and Linguistics},
volume = {12},
number = {2},
pages = {71-85},
doi = {10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11},
eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ijll.20241202.11},
abstract = {The main focus of the study was to investigate on women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipal Council, which is found in Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. This paper focuses on two specific objectives, namely to identify women’s hairstyle names and to find out the structural patterns of women’s hairstyle names. The study is a qualitative study guided by onomastic theory of naming and morpheme-based theory. The study employed descriptive research designs. Semi-structured interview and observation methods were used to collect data, where 16 respondents who were obtained through snowball and convenience sampling techniques. The findings reveal that, women’s hairstyles have meanings which are either denotative or connotative or both. They are derived from different sources such as insects, number, appearance, parts of human body, animal body parts, flora, insecticides, land forms, social events and names of famous people. Therefore, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni are deliberately created, not accidentally constructed. Moreover, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipality possess morphological and syntactic patterns. Under morphological structure, women’s hairstyle names are in free morphemes, affixation, compounding and reduplication. Syntactically, women’s hairstyle names have noun phrases and sentential structures. In relation to the data from the field, the paper concludes that there is no rigidity on women’s hairstyle names compared to other kinds of names such as personal names. This is because women’s hairstyle names are replaced or used interchangeably with other hairstyle names which mean the same.
},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR T1 - A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names AU - Agnes Pius AU - Eustard Rutalemwa Tibategeza AU - Nestory Nyamwala Ligembe Y1 - 2024/03/07 PY - 2024 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11 DO - 10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11 T2 - International Journal of Language and Linguistics JF - International Journal of Language and Linguistics JO - International Journal of Language and Linguistics SP - 71 EP - 85 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2330-0221 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20241202.11 AB - The main focus of the study was to investigate on women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipal Council, which is found in Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. This paper focuses on two specific objectives, namely to identify women’s hairstyle names and to find out the structural patterns of women’s hairstyle names. The study is a qualitative study guided by onomastic theory of naming and morpheme-based theory. The study employed descriptive research designs. Semi-structured interview and observation methods were used to collect data, where 16 respondents who were obtained through snowball and convenience sampling techniques. The findings reveal that, women’s hairstyles have meanings which are either denotative or connotative or both. They are derived from different sources such as insects, number, appearance, parts of human body, animal body parts, flora, insecticides, land forms, social events and names of famous people. Therefore, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni are deliberately created, not accidentally constructed. Moreover, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipality possess morphological and syntactic patterns. Under morphological structure, women’s hairstyle names are in free morphemes, affixation, compounding and reduplication. Syntactically, women’s hairstyle names have noun phrases and sentential structures. In relation to the data from the field, the paper concludes that there is no rigidity on women’s hairstyle names compared to other kinds of names such as personal names. This is because women’s hairstyle names are replaced or used interchangeably with other hairstyle names which mean the same. VL - 12 IS - 2 ER -
Department of Languages and Linguistics, St Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania
