Department of Linguistics: Recent submissions

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    • 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 ...

    • Genre Analysis of Move Structures in Job Interviews by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya in 2011 

      Anne Obinju1 Dr. Pamela Oloo 2 Lydia Akuno3 (Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2017)
      Many scholars have carried out research on genre analysis (Swales, 1990, Bhatia,1993, Bruce, 1993), Flowerdew, 2002, Fairclough,, 2006, and others) and their findings have opened many avenues for research and analysis ...

    • An analysis of the food metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse 

      Damaris Nyakoe, David Ongarora, Pamela Oloo (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014)
      HIV represents one of the greatest public health challenges confronting Kenyans. Whereas Kenya has made significant progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the prevalence rates in Gusii are very high and this calls for ...

    • Conceptualization of the seropositive using the journey metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse in Kisii County, Kenya 

      Damaris Nyakoe, Pamela Oloo, David Ongarora (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014)
      Language plays a fundamental role in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Kenya. Moreover, language is important in the dissemination of information that would ensure the success of both prevention and treatment of any disease. ...

    • 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, ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Language use and choice: A case study of Kinubi in Kibera, Kenya 

      Yakub Adams, Peter M Matu, David O Ongarora (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Coordinate Ellipsis in EkeGusii: An Overview 

      Robert Omari Otieno, Evans Gesura Mecha, David Ogoti Ongarora (Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2019)
      This paper gives the distributional characteristics of coordinate elliptical constructions in EkeGusii. The syntax of the constructions is given using a Phase theoretic approach, one of the current theoretical constructs ...

    • Syntactic Aspects Of Ekegusii Subject And Object Markers 

      James Mayaka Mboga, Emily Ayieta Ondondo, David Ogoti Ongarora (International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2020)
      The verbal complex in Bantu languages is an important unit in the syntactic structure. The verbal word in Bantu, in particular, EkeGusii, has a structure which accommodates affixation of a variety of morphemes as prefixes ...