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A Linguistic Analysis Of form and Content of Al-Shabaab’s Press Statements on the Recent Kenyan Terror Attacks
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Archives / Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010) / Articles Using Language Rights Concepts to Evaluate the Knowledge of Court Interpreters in Kenya
(AJOL, 2011)
Our objective was to assess the knowledge of the court interpreter on issues surrounding language rights, based on data collected from 10 practicing court interpreters in subordinate courts in Nyanza Province of Kenya. The ...
Influence of background knowledge on reading comprehension ability in Kenyan secondary schools
(Scholarlink Research Institute, 2014)
Reading is a basic skill in the education system and the society because it is a precision to most subjects offered in the school curriculum. If students do not understand what they read, they will struggle to cope with ...