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    • Benefits of Multilingualism in Education. 

      Benard Odoyo Okal (Horizon Research Publishing. 506 North Garfield Avenue# 210, Alhambra, CA 91801, 2014)
      The article gives a brief analytical survey of multilingualism practices, its consequences, its benefits in education and discussions on the appropriate ways towards its achievement in education. Multilingualism refers ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the Sex is a Football Game Metaphore in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Poster 

      Magonya Lilian, Pamela Oloo (Universidad de Maseno (Kenya), 2015)
      Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its metaphors subscribes to thesis that ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in conceptual metaphors by which they live by. In fact, conceptual ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the SEX IS A FOOTBALL GAME Metaphor in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters? 

      Lilian Magonya, Pamela Oloo (The Stockholm 2014 Metaphor Festival, 2015)
      Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its Metaphors, subscribes to the school of thought that life-threatening ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in conceptual metaphors by which ...

    • An investigation of partial meaning and non-equivalence in English translations of Ekegusii kinship terms 

      Deborah Nyanchama Oyioka, Benson Oduor Ojwang, David Ogoti Ongarora (Journal of Advances in Linguistics, 2015)
      The main challenge that translators face is that of non-equivalence as the source language (SL) and the target language (TL) almost always have cultural and linguistic differences (organize words differently). Accordingly, ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the Sex is a Football Game Metaphore in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters 

      Magonya Lilian, Pamela Oloo (Universidad de Maseno (Kenya), 2015)
      Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its Metaphors, subscribes to the school of thought that life-threatening ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in conceptual metaphors by which ...

    • Valence Decreasing Processess in Lutsotso 

      Evaline Osore, David Ongarora, Peter M Matu (Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2015)
      This paper analyzes valence decreasing process in the sentence of Lutsotso. Lutsotso is a dialect of the larger Luluhyia, an agglutinative Bantu language of Kenya with very rich morphology. The paper shows how verbal ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the SEX IS A FOOTBALL GAME Metaphor in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters? 

      Lilian Magonya, Pamela Oloo (The Stockholm 2014 Metaphor Festival, 2015)
      Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its Metaphors, subscribes to the school of thought that life-threatening ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in conceptual metaphors by which ...

    • Application of Set Theory Formulas in the Presentation of Lexical Meronymy 

      Benard Odoyo Okal1 , Frida Akinyi Miruka2 (Scholars Middle East Publishers, 2016)
      Lexemes relate in terms of sense in various ways that are linguistically referred to as homonymy, polysemy, antonymy, synonymy and even hyponymy among others. Though some of these relations like hyponymy tend to ...

    • Aspects of Dholuo Coronal Harmony 

      Unknown author (Jaramogi oginga odinga resipotory, 2016)
      Coronal harmony in Dholuo refers to the co- occurrence restriction on dental and alveolar obstruents and nasals. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain coronal harmony as it manifests in Dholuo. This involves ...

    • The Role of Context in Interpretation of Political Utterances on Hate Speech in Kenya 

      IR Wangatiah, D Ongarora, P Matu (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 ...

    • The Kenya National Drama Festival: Cultural Identity in an Anglophone and Francophone Drama Corpus 

      Caroline kalangi (Archives-ouvetes, 2016)
      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 ...

    • UCHANGANUZI WA HIPONIMIA ZA VITENZI VYA KISWAHILI 

      Benard Odoyo Okal, Florence Indede, Ernest Sangai Mohochi (Academia.edu, 2016)
      Hiponimia ni uhusiano wa kifahiwa unaodhihirika baina ya leksimu ya jumla (hipanimu) na mahususi (hiponimu). Kama vile hipanimu mzazi hujumuisha hiponimu baba na mama. Uhusiano huu wa kihiponimia ulidhukuriwa na wanaisimu ...

    • Aspects of Dholuo coronal harmony 

      Jackline Atieno Okello, John O Ogone, David Ogoti Ongarora (International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 2016)
      Coronal harmony in Dholuo refers to the co- occurrence restriction on dental and alveolar obstruents and nasals. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain coronal harmony as it manifests in Dholuo. This involves ...

    • Feature correspondence amongst Dholuo coronals 

      Okello, Jackline Atieno; Ogone, John O.; Ongarora, David Ogoti (International Journal of Social Science and Technology, 2016)
      This paper discusses the nature of correspondence amongst Dholuo coronals. This can be approached in two ways, either as feature spreading or feature agreement which seem to be controversial in literature. Dholuo coronal ...

    • The Underlying Paradoxes of the National Anthem of the Republic of South Sudan 

      Benard Odoyo Okal, Adams Yakub, Benard Odoyo Kodak (Scholars Middle East Publisher, 2016)
      National symbols are very instrumental items for a country’s peace, unity and prosperity. The national symbol for instance the national anthem is always sung at the learning institutions and or during the country’s special ...

    • Le Kenya National Drama Festival: identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone 

      Caroline Kalangi (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 Linguistic Analysis Of form and Content of Al-Shabaab’s Press Statements on the Recent Kenyan Terror Attacks 

      Deborah Oyioka, Damaris Nyakoe, David Ongarora (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 ...

    • KUFAA KWA NADHARIA YA UCHANGANUZI VIJENZI KATIKA UCHAMBUZI WA HIPONIMIA 

      Benard Odoyo Okal, Florence Indede na Ernest Sangai Mohochi (kibabii university institutional resipotory, 2017)
      Hiponimia ni mojawapo ya mahusiano ya kifahiwa inayoashiria uhusiano ambapo leksimu ya jumla inajumuisha kimaana leksimu mahususi. Uhusiano wa leksimu kihiponimia ulidhukuriwa kuwa unafanana katika lugha anuwai ulimwenguni ...

    • Discourse of Traditional Medicine Street Advertisement in Kisumu, Kenya 

      Adams Yakub, Damaris Gechemba Nyakoe, Benard Odoyo Okal (Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017)
      Information is a very important concept during an interaction between interlocutors within a particular health communicative context. In matters concerning individuals' health and other emotive issues, subjective information ...

    • Uhakiki wa Fonimu na Miundo ya Silabi za Kiswahili 

      Benard Odoyo Okal (udsm.ac.tz, 2017)
      Fonimu ni kipashio kidogo cha sauti ya lugha chenye uwezo wa kubainisha maana na hudhihirika kama irabu au konsonanti. Kama ilivyo katika lugha nyinginezo ulimwenguni, Kiswahili vilevile kina fonimu za kategoria mbili ...