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Gender Identity Through The Ekegusii Naming System
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
This paper analyses Ekegusii names and how they relate to gender identity. It shows how the naming system is basically based on the premise that a male is socialized to ‘gather wealth’, hence the term omosacha (‘man/husband’), ...
Kimeru-Influenced Misspellings And Wrong Lexical Choices In The Kiswahili Compositions Of Three Schools In Meru County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
The aim of this paper was to investigate the Kimeru-influenced misspellings and wrong lexical choices in the Kiswahili compositions of three schools in the Meru County of Kenya, with gender as a variable. The objectives ...
The Role of Kiswahili Children’s Literature in formulating their Worldview
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
This Paper will examine how characters in Children’s Literature are portrayed by different authors
with the probable ramifications.Children’s literature in Kiswahili Language has grown
tremendously in the recent past.For ...
The Lingering Question of Neocolonialism in Selected Swahili Plays
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
This paper examines how the question of neocolonialism has been addressed by Kiswahili
writers by focusing on some selected plays by Timothy Arege and K.W. Wamitila. The paper’s
main objective is to identify how the theme ...
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 ...