This article examines the metaphors that the Zimbabwean Shona speakers created to communicate various messages concerning the socio-economic and political crisis that has been occurring in their country since the year 2000. The data for this study came from two sources, namely, field notes from participant observations taken of naturally occurring interactions in t...

Vowel hiatus is inadmissible in many languages. ChiNambya and chiZezuru rely on coalescence, glide epenthesis, elision, glide formation and secondary articulation to resolve vowel hiatus. This article presents a comparative analysis of three hiatus-avoidance methods, namely, glide formation, secondary articulation and vowel elision in chiNambya and chiZezuru, using...