ABSTRACT This study set out with three objectives. First was to establish whether the information on cancer was physically available to the Kenyan public. Secondly was to ascertain whether the public was able to linguistically access the information availed to them. Thirdly was to identify the kind of language and cultural challenges encountered during face-to-face communication between health practitioners and the public. The research was guided by Bachman and Palmer’s Communicative Langu...
ABSTRACT A MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF A REGIONAL VARIETY OF KISWAHILI SPOKEN IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH. By LIKUYANI ERICK MUHATI Kiswahili has historically been used as a lingua franca since pre-colonial times in Kenya. The attainment of independence over fifty one years ago saw the political recognition of Kiswahili as a national language. This has resulted in the progressive enhancement in status of Kiswahili, both as a compulsory examinable subject and l...
2.5 EBIBUUZO BY’OKUNOONYEREZA .19 3.0 ESSUULA EYOOKUSATU (Oluwenda lw’okunoonyereza) 20 3.1 ENNYANJULA 20 3.2 ENTEGEKA EYAGOBERERWA 20 3.3 EBIBINJA BY’ABANTU 21 3.4 ENNONDA Y’ABEETABA MU KUNOONYEREZA 21 3.5 EKIFO KY’OKUNOONYEREZA 21 3.6 EBYEYAMBISIBWA MU KUNOONYEREZA 22 3.7 OBUTUUKIRIVU N’OBWESIGIKE BWEBINTU EBYAKOZESEBWA 22 3.8 OKWEKENNEENYA EBYAZUULIBWA 23 4.0 ESSUULA EYOOKUNA (Okwanj ula, okuyunguluIa, n’ okutaputa ebizuuliddiva) 24 4.1 ENNYANJULA 24 4.2 EBIBUUZO BY’ENNYANJ...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu unahusu mwingilianotanzu katika utendaji wa mivigha ya embalu na mwaka kogwa. Utafiti ulichochewa na haja ya kupigania nafasi stahili ya lugha na fasihi ya Mwafrika na hali ya tafiti za awali kuchambua tanzu moja moja. Utafiti huu ulilenga kuthibitisha kuwa, mivigha ya embalu na mwaka kogwa hujengwa na kuamilishwa kupitia mwingilianotanzu kwa msaada wa fanani, hadhira, muktadha na vivigha maalum. Mbinu ya Uchunzaji-Mahuluti inayojumuisha kushiriki, kushuhudia na kuhoji ili...
ABSTRACT This research examined how standard three primary school pupils interpret fantasy tales as a genre in children’s literature. It’s main objective was to find out children’s interpretation of themes, characters and settings of the four chosen books namely: Kuku na Mwewe (Mpesha 1998), Paka na Panya (Nyakeri, 2006), Safari ya Mbinguni (Waihiga, 2006) na Afanyaye Ubaya Hulipwa (Yahya,2003). The research was guided by two theories whose tenets worked together in achieving the resear...
A BSTRACT An epic is a genre of literature which has contributed in the writing of the Swahili novel. This research seeks to establish how an epic has in influenced the writing of a novel. This research was guided by the following objectives: First, to show that the themes found in an epic are the same ones found in the novel. Secondly, to show how an epic can be used as a style in the writing of a novel. Thirdly, to explain the comparison between the characters of an epic and those ones foun...
ABSTRACT This study is an acoustic analysis of the phonological segments of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE). KenE is contextualized within Kachru’s World Englishes (WEs) and its progress towards a ‘standard’ variety of English is accounted for within Schneider’s Dynamic Model for Post- Colonial Englishes (PCEs).The research objectives were: to describe the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked KenE phonological segments; to identify the phonemes in the ...
ABSTRACT This research endevoured to analyse the structure and functions of the adverb in the Kiswahili clause. An adverb is a word used to modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb. It is an important part of speech because it conveys information about how things happen as well as when, where and to what extent. The adverb is also taught in both primary and secondary schools in Kenya as one of the categories of Kiswahili words. However, studies on analysis of the Kiswahili adverb ha...
ABSTRACT This study is based on one of the female writers of francophone Africa, Calixthe Beyala. It investigates how she has portrayed the African woman and girl in one of her novels, Assèze l‟Africaine. It studies her role as an African female novelist in the representation of the African woman and girl in literature. In addition, it examines the portrait of the central character Assèze, to identify whether she has been depicted as a traditional or modern African girl. This work was gui...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu ulidhamiria kuchunguza ~awiri wa vijana katika tamthilia teule za Kiswahili. Mtafiti amechanganua taswira mbali mbali zilizoibuka katika tamthilia hizi teule. Imebainika kuwa, taswira hizi ni kiwakilishi cha njia wanazotumia vijana kujipa mamlaka na kuyatumia, pamoja na mamlaka hayo kutumika kwao. Tasnifu hii imeonyesha kuwa, vijana wana uwezo wa kujipa mamlaka na kuyatumia sawa na wazee katikajamii. Hata hivyo, njia za kufanya hivyo ni tofauti na zile za wazee! Nadharia ...
A Selected Evaluation of Phonological Teaching Materials Presented in Kenyan Form Two English Textbooks
IKISIRI Utafiti huu ulijikita katika kutathmini utayari wa Wakenya katika utekelezaji wa sera ya lugha ya Kiswahili kama lugha rasmi nchini Kenya. Utafiti ulilenga wakaazi wa mji wa Nairobi hasa katika ofisi za shughuli za kiutawala na vyombo vya habari vinavyopatikana humo. Utayari wa utekelezaji wa sera ya lugha ya Kiswahili umeathiriwa na mambo mbalimbali. Baadhi ya mambo hayo ni kama vile: hadhi ambayo lugha hii imepewa, manufaa ya lugha hii miongoni mwa athari nyingine. Malengo ya u...
This thesis is a linguistic study of KPP names, KPP symbols, KPP colours and KPP slogans. It establishes that linguistic resources are used by political operators in design of the KPP tools. This is achieved by deliberately manipulating language at the phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, sociolinguistic and textual levels. These linguistic manipulations realise KPP mixed code names, sense relations, associative meanings, political discourses, abbreviations manipul...
IKISIRI Utafiti huu ulishughulikia uchunguzi wa matumizi ya vifaa vya ufundishaji wa msamiati wa Kiswahili katika shule za msingi za umma, Kaunti Ndogo ya Kisumu Mashariki, Kenya. Madhumuni aliyozingatia mtafiti katika utafiti huu yalikuwa ni pamoja na kutambua changamoto zilizopo wakati wa kutumia vinyago, video na chati katika somo la msamiati, pili ni kudadisi sera zilizopo za ukaguzi ili kudhibiti matumizi wa video, chati na vinyago ili kusaidia uelewekaji wa misamiati na kuchunguza udhai...
ABSTRACT 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 in Mpika District, Muchinga Province, Zambia. The study had the following objectives: One, to identify and describe the noun class system in the Bisa dialect; two, to describe the word formation processes evident in formation of nouns in the Bisa dialect; and thre...