Dr Laston Mukaro

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Qualifications

2012: PhD-Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Beijing Language and Culture University- China).

Thesis Title: Towards a semantic description of Shona: a case for lexical meaning extension.

2008: MPhil- Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe).

Thesis Title: A study of lexical and structural sense relations in ChiShona.

2003: BA Honours- Linguistics (University of Zimbabwe).

Dissertation Title: Sense relations in Shona

Courses Taught

Second Language Acquisition

Language in Multilingual Societies

Discourse Analysis

Text and Discourse Analysis

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Advanced Linguistic Theory

Advanced Phonetics and Phonology

Field Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Schools of Linguistic Thought.

Communication and Negotiating Skills

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Research Focus Areas

Cognitive Linguistics

Theoretical Semantics

Phonetics

Phonology

Mathematical applications in language

Discourse analysis

Second language acquisition