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Conceptualization of the seropositive using the journey metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse in Kisii County, Kenya
(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 analysis of the food metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse
(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 ...
Face threatening acts and standing Orders:‘politeness’ or ‘politics’ in the question time discussions of the Kenyan Parliament
(Journal of Pan African Studies, 2011)
This discussion attempts a pragmatics analysis of Kiswahili literary political discourse. Specific examples will be drawn from poetic texts; Chembe cha Moyo by Alamin Mazrui (1988), Sauti ya Dhiki by Abdilatif Abdala (1973) ...
Conceptualization of the seropositive using the journey metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse in Kisii County, Kenya
(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. ...
What Gets Mapped onto What in the Sex is a Football Game Metaphore in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Poster
(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 ...
Socio-cultural Dynamics of Displacement in Adichie’s Novels
(Imperial journal of interdisciplinary research, 2018)
Displacement is an all-embracing experience that has attracted global interest. Post-colonial countries in Africa and beyond are grappling with this experience. Literary discourse is alive to the socio-cultural dimensions ...
Application of Set Theory Formulas in the Presentation of Lexical Meronymy
(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 ...
An analysis of the food metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse
(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 ...
SOCIOCULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS IN MASS MEDIA AND ELT
(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 ...
An Analysis of Lexical Errors in Written English RN Abaya
(African Journals OnLine (AJOL), 2010)
This paper presents an analysis of lexical errors in the written English of Standard Eight Pupils in Rigoma Division of Nyamira District, Kenya. The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (K.C.P.E) results of 1998- 2002 ...