This book draws on the case of the Shona and other Bantu people of
Africa to argue that names are not mere identity tags. Names are an
important cultural symbol of the people who give and bear them. The
book challenges linguists and other social scientists to pay
particular attention to the significance of names in the study of
language use in society. Equally, it demonstrates the importance of
names as part of the distinctive repertoire of Shona cultural
heritage. Each Shona sentential name is a statement about that
reality of being Shona. Carried in each name are sentiments that
reflect on prevalent social, economic and political relations. The
book focuses in particular on social names, religious names and war
names inspired by such events as Zimbabwe's war of liberation.
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