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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 ...
Scaffolded assistance in Kenyan secondary school classrooms :the case of Maseno University student teachers of English
(Newcastle University, 2014)
he thesis furthers understanding of sociocultural perspectives on teaching and learning by investigating the process of scaffolding in whole class interactions among pre-service teachers of English in the Kenyan secondary ...
An investigation of partial meaning and non-equivalence in English translations of Ekegusii kinship terms
(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
(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 ...
Benefits of Multilingualism in Education.
(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 ...
The Kenya National Drama Festival: Cultural Identity in an Anglophone and Francophone Drama Corpus
(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 ...
Discourse of Traditional Medicine Street Advertisement in Kisumu, Kenya
(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 ...
An exposition of some adapted lexemes in Dholuo
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2013)
The paper gives an exposition of some adapted
English lexemes into Dholuo. The work relied on a
descriptive design. Total purposive sampling technique was
incorporated in collecting secondary data to saturation level.
All ...
Uhakiki wa Fonimu na Miundo ya Silabi za Kiswahili
(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 ...
Syntactic Aspects in Text Messaging
(Sciedu Press, 2011)
Online interactive media such as text messaging has influenced syntactic aspects of language. In order to determine how
text messaging has resulted in paradigm shift in the traditional uses of language, this paper explores ...