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Face threatening acts and politeness strategies by the Kenyan televangelists
(Kenyatta University, 2015-05)The focus of the study is politeness in televangelism. It aimed at finding out the face threatening acts inherent in the televangelists' discourse, the politeness strategies employed by the televangelists and the factors ... -
Face threatening acts in the discourse of the academic clinic in Kenyan secondary schools
(Kenyatta University, 2018)In Kenya today, secondary school students sometimes describe themselves as neglected because they feel they are denied the opportunity to express their views. Considering the many communicative events in schools, this is ... -
Factors contributing to vocabulary spurt in Kikuyu children aged 18 - 24 months from Othaya division, Nyeri district, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2007)Language development determines children's future educational and social success. Performance in schools at all levels is related to the with language foundation in the early childhood years. In the recent past there has ... -
The female voice and the future of Gender relationships in the Nigerian nation in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun
(2011-11-03)This study is a gender appraisal of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's two novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). It interrogates how the author projects the female voice(s) in her writing. We explore how ... -
Figurative Language in Electoral Campaign Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
(Kenyatta University, 2016-06)This study investigated the use of figurative language (FL) in selected politicians' electoral campaign speeches in Meru County during 2013 Kenya general elections. Figurative language is mainly social-culturally constructed ... -
Formant Characteristics of the Southern Gĩkũyũ Dialect Vowels
(Kenyatta University, 2019-10)The current study is an acoustic analysis of vowels of southern Gĩkũyũ dialect. The study sought to establish the formant values of vowels which were plotted on the acoustic vowel space. The acoustic vowel space was compared ... -
Forms and Functions of Borrowed Honorifics among Gikuyu Speakers of Nairobi County
(Kenyatta University, 2014-10-09)This is a sociolinguistic study of language use in society. The study aims at establishing the honorifics that Gikuyu speakers have borrowed from other languages as a result of language contact. The study will also investigate ... -
Forms and Functions of English Discourse Markers Among Secondary School Students’ Debating Discourse in Makueni County
(Kenyatta University, 2020-11)Discourse is the language in use. A study on discourse markers (DMs) falls under discourse analysis which deals with the exploration of what language is employed for and therefore, it cannot be restricted only to the ... -
Forms of politeness in Ekegusii: A sociolinguistic perspective
(Kenyatta University, 2015-11)This dissertation is a study focusing on the nature of talk in Ekegusii. It specifically analyzed the forms of politeness in Ekegusii, examining how Ekegusii varies depending on power relations and the context of usage. ... -
Frame Analysis of Selected Kenyan Newspaper Headlines on Kenyan Cases at the International Criminal Court (2011-2016)
(Kenyatta University, 2021)This study undertook a frame analysis of selected Kenyan newspaper headlines on Kenyan cases at the International Criminal Court. Specifically, the study investigated lexical strategies syntactic strategies that were ... -
A Functional Grammar Approach to the Analysis of Gikuyu Emphatic Clauses
(2010-09)There is need to preserve and popularize African languages and scholars like Momanyi (2007) call for research, documentation and preservation of the languages by the native speakers. This work is a response to this need. ... -
A Functional Grammer Approach to the Analysis of Gikuyu Emphatic Clauses
(2013-04-23)There is need to preserve and popularize African languages and scholars like Momanyi (2007) call for research, documentation and preservation of the languages by the native speakers. This work is a response to this need. ... -
Functions of code switching among multilingual students at Kenyatta University
(2012-02-24)This study examines the language use patterns among multilingual students at Kenyatta University. It outlines both the social and the stylistic functions of code switching and how speakers strategically use different codes ... -
Funerary Symbols in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967) and Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970)
(International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL), 2019)This research paper is based on the study of the primary texts; Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain (1970) and Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry (1967). It seeks to identify and examine the significance of funerary symbols in the two ... -
Gender dimensions in the language of local Hip hop songs in kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2012-05)The question of gender bias is now seen as a major challenge in almost every discipline that deals with human behavior, cognition, institutions, society and culture. Therefore, this study is an attempt to investigate ... -
The Grammatical Function of Tone in Ekegusii
(2013-04-18)This study sought to investigate the grammatical function of tone in Ekegusii, a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Kenya. The main objective was to determine how tone is utilized in marking some five grammatical ... -
Grapheme-Phoneme and Tone Representation and their Effects on Translation: The Case of the 1959 Nandi Bible
(Kenyatta University, 2011-09)Any good translation should pay attention to the complexities of the target language's system. Owing to the complexity of the Nandi sound system, the proposed study looked at one criterion of a good writing system - maximum ...
