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Contextual variability in the acceptability of Kenyan English grammatical features
(2013)
The present study set out to find out whether a number of grammatical
features assumed to be characteristic of Kenyan English would be
accepted at different levels depending on three parameters of linguistic
context: ...
Mchongoano and the ethnography of communication
(2015)
This paper is an attempt to give an ethnographic description of
mchongoano in order to understand how it achieves its objectives.
Mchongoano is a verbal duelling game popular with young people in Kenya
but also appreciated ...
A relevance-theoretical analysis of aspects of Mchongoano
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This article investigates mchongoano, a Kenyan speech event
very similar to what Americans call “playing the dozens”. Much
as sociologists, folklorists, and anthropologists have studied
playing the dozens fewer studies ...
Reference cohesion within the complex sentence in the Swahili of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
This paper focuses on reference cohesion within a complex sentence in
the day-to-day Kiswahili of Nairobi. The thrust of its argumentation is
that although earlier research inspired by Halliday and Hasan (1976) has
been ...
Strategies of controlling the linguistic response from cross-examined witnesses: lay defendants as cross examiners in a kenyan resident magistrate’s court
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
This paper analyzes strategies of controlling the linguistic responses of
prosecution witnesses that were employed by two accused persons in a
grievous-bodily-harm case involving family members at a magistrate’s court
in ...
Onsanse's language: Not more than two-word utterances after forty years of exposure to four languages
(2013)
This paper set out to investigate the amount and nature of language the
subject of the study (Onsanse)has learnt for four decades of exposure to
several languages after being picked up at the age of 17, when he could
produce ...
The role of indigenous languages in kenya: a case for using them as languages of instruction throughout primary school
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
In the situation that currently prevails in Kenya, English is the
prestigious language, the mastery of which is a prerequisite for social
and economic advancement. Kiswahili, for its part, as the national
language of ...
A relevance-theoretical analysis of intercultural misunderstandings in global communication
(University of Nairobi, 2012)
Globalisation can be seen as an evolution which is systematically reconstructing interactive phases among nations by breaking down barriers in the areas of culture, communication and several other fields of endeavour. ...
Specific language impairment in the speech of Meshack, an Ekegusii speaker
(University of Nairobi, 2013)
Research on SLI, mostly on European languages like English, German and
Italian, has suggested that it mainly affects inflectional morphology and,
to a lesser degree, syntax and phonology. The present study researched
SLI ...
Misuse of Kiswahili noun class markers in Kenya: illustration with the case of the Kiswahili of form-three students of the Akiba secondary school in Nairobi
(2010)
The aim of this paper was to establish the extent of misuse of noun class markers in written Kiswahili in Kenya. It illustrates with the case of the Kiswahili of Form Three students of the Akiba Secondary School in Nairobi. ...