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nthroponymy in Eastern Nilotic: A case of Turkana personal names
(Reserach Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2022-07-14)
This paper is about personal names given to Turkana children at birth, during the rite of passage to adulthood and throughout one’s life. Following the lexical pragmatic theory according to Wilson (2003) and Carston (2002), ...
Constraints in the interpretation of English-Lubukusu medical discourse
(Research Journal in modern Language and literature, 2023-05-07)
Medical interpretation is simultaneous, and the interpreter usually lacks sufficient time to process and reproduce the information received as accurately as is sufficient. This paper investigated the linguistic and contextual ...
Aspectual forms in Lutsotso
(Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literature., 2021-04-05)
This paper analyses the inflectional category of aspect in Lutsotso, a dialect of the Oluluhya macro-language. Using descriptive approach, the paper establishes that there are a number of inflectional morphemes ...
Contextual meaning loss and gain in the translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm from English to Kiswahili
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-10-17)
This paper establishes the extent of contextual meaning loss or gain in the translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm from English to Kiswahili. In particular, it analyzes critical concepts in contextualizing the ...
ATR harmony in English borrowed words in Ng’aturukana: An optimality theory account.
(Journal of Linguistics and Foreign, 2021-06-01)
Ng’aturukana, a language spoken by the Turkana people of North Western Kenya, gets into contact with English through trade, education, among other fields. As a consequence, the borrowed words have to be assimilated, ...
A semantic analysis of Lubukusu cut and break verbs
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-01-12)
This paper analyses the separation events, as manifested in the cut and break verbs in Lubukusu. This is done with a particular reference to the intention behind the separation, the instrument used in the disintegrating ...
Vital relations in the metaphors of Covid-19 in Lukabaras
(Journal of contemporary research, 2022-09-28)
Since the emergence of Covid-19 pandemic in late 2019, the metaphorical framing of this respiratory disease also known as the Corona Virus, has been manifested variedly in different social contexts and discourses. The ...
A Semantic Analysis of Lubukusu Cut and Break Verbs
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social sciences, 2023-01-12)
his paper analyses the separation events, as manifested in the cut and break verbs in Lubukusu. This is done with a particular reference to the intention behind the separation, the instrument used in the disintegrating ...
Forms of multimodal approaches in the teaching of listening and speaking skills
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-08-01)
This study sought to explore the factors that determine the teachers of English’s choice of multimodal approaches when teaching listening and speaking skills to Kenya’s Grade 1 learners. The study adopted a cross-sectional ...
Meaning loss in English-Lubukusu medical interpretation
(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023-05-27)
Language is a vital component in doctor-patient communication. The linguistic differences between languages make medical interpretation difficult. Thus, in situations where a doctor and a patient have no common language, ...