Browsing MST-Department of English & Linguistics by Title
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Language of Instruction in Urban Children’s Homes: Status and Implications
(2014-02-24)This study is a sociolinguistic survey of the status of Language of Instruction (LOI) in Children’s Homes. It considers the fact that there is a variety of languages at the disposal of the children in CHs, who are a ... -
Lexeme-Based Morphological Analysis of Facebook Neologisms
(Kenyatta University, 2016)The world has seen an increase in the use of social media in the last five years. This has brought about neologisms that are used to serve the communication needs of the subscribers of social media. The study was prompted ... -
Lexical and morphosyntactic attrition in secondary school students who speak Gikuyu as L1
(2012-04-03)The aim of this study was to investigate attrition in Gikuyu Ll speakers as a consequence of Gikuyu - English contact in school. The study was based on the premise that students were losing their competencies in indigenous ... -
Lexical and phonological errors in the spoken English language of pre-school teachers in classrooms in Kasarani division
(2012-01-27)Many studies done in second language learning and acquisition focus on the learner. The studies done in Kenya show that students leave school with little competence (see Maina, 1991; Nyamasyo, 1992; Njoroge, 1996). ... -
Lexical Change in the Naming of the Months of the Year in Ekegusii
(Kenyatta University, 2016-06)The purpose of the study was to identify and describe the change in the naming of the months of the year in Ekegusii. In doing so, the study examined the change in language in relation to cultural change in the Gusii ... -
A Lexical Examination of the Collocation Patterns and Degrees of Opacity in Multiword Units: Illustrations from Animal Firm
(2013-04-19)The aim of this study is to lexically examine the types of opacity and collocation patterning in multiword units with illustrations from, Animal Farm (2002), edition. The objectives of the study are: to identify and describe ... -
Lexical Variation in Spoken Lubukusu in Bungoma County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2014-10-31)This study investigated lexical variation in spoken Lubukusu, a language spoken by the Bukusu people in the Western part of Kenya. Research has shown that all languages vary at all levels and that these variations are ... -
A lexico – pragmatic analysis of Kipsigis marriage dowry Negotiations
(Kenyatta University, 2018-07)ABSTRACT The study sought to find out the lexical items used during Kipsigis marriage negotiations and their meaning. The need for this study arose due to the fact that during marriage negotiations, some lexical items ... -
Linguistic and Educational Therapies given to Autistic Children at City Primary School
(2013-04-23)The study sought to investigate the therapies applied to autistic children in Kenya. Thus, it looked at various linguistic and educational interventions offered to autistic children. It also sought to find out the effectiveness ... -
Linguistic Borrowing and Language Vitality in Lubukusu
(2013-04-19)This study is an analysis of cultural lexical borrowing of nominals in Lubukusu from English, their morphological assimilation into the language and the resultant vitality of Lubukusu. Its objectives were: to identify ... -
Linguistic Borrowing in A Language Contact Situation: The Case of Igikuria and English in Migori County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2020-07)English language influences other languages thus enriching their vocabularies. Igikuria is no exception to this statement. The study identified some of the nominals that Igikuria has borrowed from English and analyzed them ... -
Linguistic outcomes of Sabaot/Kiswahili contact in Mt. Elgonsub-County, Bungoma County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2017-07)This study is an analysis of lexical borrowing of nominals in Sabaot from Kiswahili. The two languages under study differ from each other in significant ways. Kiswahili for example is a language of the Niger-Congo family ... -
Linguistic strategies in the teaching of English language oral skills in Kenyan secondary schools: a case of Kakamega District
(2011-11-03)This study dealt with the linguistic strategies used in the teaching of English language oral skills in selected secondary schools in Kenya. The objectives upon which the study was based were: identify and describe the ... -
Margaret Ogola's imagination of masculinities in three novels
(2014-05-07)This study investigates Margaret Ogola's portrayal of male characters in three novels namely, The River and the Source, J Swear by Apollo and Place of Destiny. Of primary concern to the study is the establishment of male ... -
Meaning Loss in Literal Translation: A Case Study of Dholuo Riddles and Proverbs
(2013-04-23)The purpose of this study was to investigate meaning loss as a result of literal translation of a literary text from Dholuo to English. This study had four objectives: the first one being, to identify and describe instances ... -
Meaning transformation in the Kiswahili translation of George Orwell's animal farm
(2011-10-27)Meaning transformation comes about when the message intended by the author is not wholly transferred to the receptor audience. This may be due to a myriad of reasons, such as, translator's intentions and competence. ... -
Mistranslations in English- Kiswahili church sermons: a case study of a selected Pentecostal church in Kasarani Nairobi, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2006)The study investigates mistranslation of word classes occurring during interpretation of church sermons, in Kasarani Division, Nairobi, Kenya. It identifies some categories of the words prone to mistranslation; the ... -
A Morpho-Semantic Study of Kipsigis Place Names
(2013-12-17)This study focused on the morpho-semantics of place names in the Kipsigis dialect. The study had three objectives, which were: to describe the morphological processes involved in the formation of names in Kipsigis, to ... -
Morpho-syntactic errors in the written English of first year undergraduate students in Kenya
(2012-05-03)The aim of this study was to examine the morpho-syntactic errors in the written English of the first year undergraduate students in Kenya. The sample was drawn from the first year students of English in Kenyatta University. ... -
A morphological analysis of bisa nouns: a dialect of the Bemba language in mpika District, Zambia
(Kenyatta University, 2018-07)Many minor African languages still remain unstudied and undocumented. This also applies to the dialects of major languages. This study focused on Bisa, a dialect of Bemba, a language spoken in Zambia. Bisa dialect is spoken ...
