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Language use and choice: A case study of Kinubi in Kibera, Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2012)This article analyzes the domains of language use and choice of the Kinubi speaking community in Kibera, Kenya in relation to Kinubi maintenance in a multilingual location. Language use and choice has been a debated ... -
Le Kenya National Drama Festival: identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone
(2016-02-10)This study analyszes the representation of cultural identity in sixteen drama texts written by Kenyans in English and in French for the Kenya National Drama Festival (KNDF). Considering the colonial history and the ... -
A Lexico-Pragmatic Interpretation of Peace in the 2013 Kenyan Presidential Campaign Speeches Regarding Conflict Management
(ARC Journals, 2017)Words have power to control human thoughts and behaviour. In a country like Kenya which has experienced election-related conflict since 1992, with the exception of 2013, various lexical choices, especially by the political ... -
A Linguistic Analysis Of form and Content of Al-Shabaab’s Press Statements on the Recent Kenyan Terror Attacks
(Multilingual Academic Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2017)This paper examines the form that is structure as well as the content of the statements and press releases of Al-Shabaab at different times with the hope of establishing a pattern of phraseology and consistent references ... -
Linguistic Conceptualizations of Disease Among the Luo of Kenya
(Sage Publications, 2018)The region inhabited by the Luo ethnic group in Kenya is disease endemic. However, disease awareness initiatives register low acceptance due to the sociocultural images of disease and illness conceptualized in the local ... -
A Linguistic Overview of the Patronymic and Gender Names amongst the Selected African Communities
(American Journal of Linguistics, 2018)Most family systems world over are basically patriarchal in that children are given names bearing those of their fathers. The tendency cuts across almost all cultures in the world. This trend has continued to exist from ... -
Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022-04-21)This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors provide ... -
NAFASI YA TAFSIRI KATIKA TAALUMA YA ONOMASTIKI: UHAKIKI WA MBINU ZAKE KATIKA TAFSIRI YA TOPONOMASTIKI
(Journal of the Institute of Kiswahili Research, Dar Es Salaam, 2017)Hivi sasa lugha ya Kiswahili inadhukuriwa sio tu kama lugha ya wanajamii wa Afrika Mashariki na Kati pekee bali ni miongoni mwa zile lugha kubwa za ulimwengu na ambazo hutumiwa katika shughuli mbalimbali za binadamu. ... -
Perceptions in Uhuru-Raila 9th March, 2018 handshake discourse in Kenya’s print media
(Scholars Middle East Publishers, 2022-01-21)In Kenya, the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (henceforth referred to as ODM) leader, Raila Odinga, on 9th March, 2018 elicited diverse discourse on the phenomenon. The print media ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv, 2022-10-29)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Cornell University, 2022-10-29)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
Politeness in nonverbal communication: a commentary on non-verbal communication in a linguistics classroom context in a selected Kenyan university
(European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies, 2023-07-05)The aim of this article was to explain the effects of politeness as entailed in nonverbal language use in the instructional process. Non-verbal communication skills also known as silent language, include all behaviours ... -
Politeness Strategies in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC):
(Al-Kindupublishers, 2023-08-13)This paper examines the politeness theory in the light of Austin & Searle’s speech act theory as reflected in CMC between students and their lecturers or supervisors. Thus politeness aspects were analyzed as enacted in ... -
A pragmatic analysis of figurative language used in HIV/AIDS discourse in Kenia: a case study of english and Kiswahili messages
(University of Geneva, 2012)This research investigates whether Kenyans from 42 mutually intelligible communities homogeneously comprehend AIDS posters. In this regard, the five research objectives are: (1) to investigate whether Kenyan AIDS posters ... -
A pragmatic analysis of figurative language used in HIV/AIDS discourse in Kenia: a case study of english and Kiswahili messages
(University of Geneva, 2012)This research investigates whether Kenyans from 42 mutually intelligible communities homogeneously comprehend AIDS posters. In this regard, the five research objectives are: (1) to investigate whether Kenyan AIDS posters ... -
A Pragmatic Analysis of Impoliteness Forms and Strategies in Ekegusii Arbitration Discourse, Kenya
(Accelerating the world's research., 2020)Politeness is a pragmatic concept that assumes mutually co-orperative behavior considerateness for others and polished behaviour in verbal interactions. Politeness guards against harming the hearer and speaker’s self-esteem ... -
Pragmatic Exploration of Social Media Images on Interpretation Aiming at Facebook Users in Kenya: Political Discourse
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020)This article sought to address the gap in empirical research related to pragmatic exploration of social media images on interpretation focusing on Facebook users in Kenya: political discourse. In order to achieve this, ... -
Pseudo-Reduplication in Lukisa Dialect
(East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2022): Reduplication is a grammatical aspect found in a wide range of African languages and it is sometimes interchangeably used with repetition. Reduplication is both a morphological and a phonological process of forming a ... -
Reduplication in Dholuo a Study of Morphological Reduplication
(Nairobi university, 2007)This work is a study of reduplication of Dholuo. Reduplication is a naturally integrated facility in Dholuo grammar and therefore calls for a thorough theoretical and descriptive analysis in order to provide a clear ... -
The Role of Context in Interpretation of Political Utterances on Hate Speech in Kenya
(Multilingual Academic Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2016)This paper analyses the role of context in interpretation of political utterances on hate speech in Kenya. The political landscape in Kenya has been characterised by multiparty politics since early 1980’s. When the Kenya ...