Browsing by Author "Leyew, Zelealem (PhD)"

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    Language use in the criminal justice process: The Case of Raya Alamata Woreda in Tigray Region
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-06) Nigusse, Gessesse; Leyew, Zelealem (PhD)
    The main purpose of this study was to describe and analyze language use and to assess language related problems in the criminal justice process in Raya Alamata Woreda. To ensure this, qualitative and quantitative methods were used. All the legal officers were taken and one hundred clients were included through quota sampling. Questionnaire was distributed for legal officers and clients. Interview was made with legal officers and clients. Observation was made during courtroom interactions and police interrogations. An attempt was made to describe and analyze language use in the criminal justice. The study revealed that people use direct and indirect speech acts to convey intended messages in the criminal justice. The police use mainly eight WH questions as a tool for criminal investigation. Lawyers use the system of presupposition and entailment to draw question to examine witnesses with the intention of triangulating the linguistic evidences. Accused and complainants use language mainly to convince the judges in favor of their respected clients by destroying the arguments of their opponent parts. Lawyers use code mixing for technical use of terms, habitual use of language, and professional adaptation of terms. They also use code switching for better comprehension of language. Parties and witnesses use code mixing for elaboration of terms, as a matter of habit, and due to mother tongue interference. They also use code switching for better comprehension and secrete use of language. New words are introduced into the legal language mainly through borrowing, compounding, semantic extension, loan translation, derivation and abbreviations. The difficulty of legal jargons, the complexity of legal language, linguistic and non linguistic barriers, and the asymmetrical distribution of speech acts between lawyers and parties are found to be problems in language use. To alleviate the problems, lawyers should make their language as simple as possible to be understood easily by clients. Awareness should be created on meanings of legal terms for clients or else use common terms during interactions. Legal officers should accept clients’ language choice, provide legal awareness for the people and provide translation services.
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    Medical Professional-Patient Communication in Outpatient Department of Kotebe Health Center: A Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Study
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-10) Yohannes, Abrham; Leyew, Zelealem (PhD)
    Doctor and patient communication is one of the interpersonal communications and is centre for clinical function in building a therapeutic doctor and patient relationship, which is the heart and art of medicine. Therefore, it is important in the delivery of high-quality health care. But, patients complain that doctors are not willing to listen to them, do not answer their questions or inform them properly, they are authoritative and unhelpful. Doctors, on the other hand, criticize their patients for not following their advice. Abstract The study focused on Outpatient department of Kotebe Health center, which is under Yeka sub city that provides primary health care for the general population which holds two doctors, four health officers, twenty three nurses and their patients. That is the communication between medical professional and patient from sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects respectively. The first, contemplates the use of terminology, register, turn taking, solidarity and status, language and group membership, and code switching in language. The second, deals with the use of language in social context and emphasize the ‘functionality’ of utterances performed in medical contexts of interaction which attempts to address the speech act theory, the maxims and the paralinguistic feature of the language. The methodology used to collect the data is techniques such as interview; observations and questionnaires. The qualitative data which was found from the interactions and quantitative data found from questionnaires were analyzed and tried to inspect the two questions; those are mentioned above. Moreover, the study shows both interlocutors’ code switch from Amharic and to English and used terminologies during communication which has contribution for miscommunication and clarification. Variables such as age, gender, educational status etc. has big part in the interaction of the medical communication.
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    The Morphology of Goggot
    (Addis Ababa University, 2002-10) Tekle-Michael, Kebede; Leyew, Zelealem (PhD)
    This thesis concerns the morphology of Goggot. The central theme of the study is to give a base-line description on both the inflectional and derivation properties of Goggot nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. The paper is organized in six chapters, including the introductory and concluding chapters. In chapter one, a brief introduction is given on the linguistic and Scio-linguistic situations of the language, on the significance and methods of the present study, and on the morphophonemic feature of the language. In the next four chapters (2-5), attempt is made to describe both the inflectional and derivational properties of Goggot nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In the description, inflections for such grammatical categories as number and definiteness in nouns and adjectives; tense, aspect, mood, and AGRS in verbs have been treated. In the study, it has been identified that case marking is predominately prepositional in GoggOt. In addition, attempt has been made to analyze the internal structure of Goggot pronouns. Concerning their derivations, stems from which nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs can be derived, and the patterns and bound morphemes used to derive these word classes have been identified. In chapter six, major findings of the study have been summarized and conclusions are made on the basis of these findings.