Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v6i1.473
Joseph Patrick Kitur
The study is an inquiry into divergent literacy practices among communities resident in Nandi County. This means that the study will explore the different literacy literacies among multicultural and multilingual residents in the County. In this study, a purposive stratified sample of 60 rural-urban mixes of intercultural group locations in Nandi County comprising a purposive selection of 20 respondents in each location using the snowball technique was used, face-to-face interviews, literacy diaries, observation, video with inbuilt audio recording, and documentation. The results of the study indicated significant ways in which multilingual residents of Nandi County use literacies in their everyday lives. For example, it was established from interviews and observations made in churches in Nandi County that the church had elaborate literacies evident in its programmes and activities. For instance, the Sunday school curriculum was structured and developed into lessons that children were taken through. In some churches, the lessons were structured to fit the children’s ages, that is, lower and upper classes. It was concluded that the skills required for navigating and performing in today’s information age invite us to focus on a wide range of literacies. It is evident that individuals and groups always go beyond the literacy they possess when confronted with situations that require them to act or solve a problem. Consequently, this calls for inquiry into literacy practices that are unique to each setting. It was recommended that individuals and groups are not limited to the knowledge and skills they possess only, and therefore, what they do with literacies should be investigated.
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The study sought to establish how youth presenters on local entertainment programmes in Kenyan media use language to create identities among themselves and their viewers. While media personalities carry on their social interactions, the viewers and listeners are using the media as an active component of the construction of their own interactions and identities. The study set out to establish how the youth presenters on local entertainment programmes use language to create identities among their viewers and listeners and to highlight the type of content the youth presenters present on selected youth programmes. Using observation and recording as the main tools of data collection, a corpus of four programmes (two radio programmes and two TV programmes) were purposively sampled, observed by the researcher, transcribed, coded, and then thematically analysed. Guided by Wodak's Discourse Historical Approach and Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame theory that provided the framework for analysis, the study adopted a descriptive research design. The research design provided insights into the characteristics of youth language that indicated identity creation in the programmes under study. The findings of this study revealed that some of the features of youth language that are used to create identity are code-mixing, code-switching, Shembeteng, slang, borrowing, Sheng and short forms, which are also the hallmarks of youth language. The findings of the study contribute to new knowledge in terms of language evolution among the youth.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v5i1.406
Christine Namayi, Monicah Onyancha
The objective of this study was to analyse the incongruities in the ironical expressions incongruities in her jokes. The interpretation of Kansiime’s jokes was done as an expansion in Kansiime’s jokes. This study was a pragmatic approach to the study of comedy. It looked at how one Ugandan comedian, Anne Kansiime, uses irony to create of the applicability of Relevance Theory in the interpretation of texts. In assessing Kansiime's sketches, an insight was drawn into how hearers can interpret texts to perceive them as humorous. Having adopted the relevance theoretical framework, which tries to give an account of how hearers interpret texts during verbal communication, it necessitated that we define the place of the hearer and, at the same time that of the speaker since the comedian endeavours to judge their minds. For a successful interpretation of a text during a given discourse, the hearer must be able to judge the intentions of the speaker, while the speaker must also be able to give sound context for the interpretation process. For this reason, this study alludes to these concepts by looking at how the speaker, who in this case is the humorist, is able to judge the minds of her audience and subsequently judge what the audience will attend to as relevant during a given discourse.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v5i1.397
S. M. Mwanthi
This study sought to explore the motivating factors that lead to the consumption of Nigerian Movies, Nollywood. The researcher collected data by interviewing residents of the Shauri Moyo estate using a self-administered questionnaire and a focused group discussion using the FGD interview schedule. Key informants' interviews were also conducted with program production managers from Citizen TV. The Kenyan audience used uses and gratifications theory to analyse different motivations for watching Nigerian movies. The study revealed that Nigerian movies have audiences of all people of all ages, gender, levels of education and living standards of people. It was established that 40 per cent of the respondents were motivated by the entertainment aspect of Nigerian movies, 25 per cent watch them because they are educative, 20 per cent watch because they project African culture such as attire and the foods, 10 per cent confessed that they watched Nigerian movies because they idolise the Nigerian movie actors and actresses. Lastly, 5 per cent watched Nigerian movies for reasons like the accent. In conclusion, this study indicated that Television channels in Kenya air Nigerian movies to entertain their audiences educate them and, at the same time, transmit African culture. This study recommends that, by all means, the Nigerian industry is not perfect. However, it is part of development, so in future, the audience themselves should have some kind of consumer association to be in a position to demand better quality and standard movies.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v4i1.385
Fugich Wako
This paper interrogates the songs of girls that contest this marginalised position by questioning the authorities of parents, brothers, husbands and mothers-in-law. It documents, analyses and teases out the meaning of these oral songs within a theoretical framework of feminist orientation. The girls’ song was collected from Sololo Division, Moyale District. The Borana songs by girls were collected in situ. The paper also drew the library research for purposes of theoretical grounding, literature review and profundity in data analysis and interpretation. A focused group discussion was also held with some informants who demonstrated their knowledge of these songs and the culture of the Borana community in general. Finally, the collected data were analysed for their contents. These were texts of the songs, field notes for the critical responses from the audience in the form of condemnation or commendation, and cultural contexts of the performances. Singers who invoke alternative viewpoints contest the very instruments of power such as culture, tradition, religion, age and gender used by patriarchy to legitimise its practice of marginalisation of and control over girls. As a result, a fresh dimension of social transformation emerges. The paper argues that the girls have a collective desire to be part of the Borana community without being subjected to gender-based discrimination. It concludes that the songs are used as sites of contestation that invoice the rejection of these discriminations and reaffirm their belongingness to mainstream society.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v4i1.304
Carolyne M. Muriungi; Prof. Felicia Yieke; Dr. Pauline Ndoro
This study investigated the acquisition of English as a second language in adult post-literacy level learners in the adult literacy centres in Imenti-North Sub-County. The study utilised the descriptive research design. The target population comprised of all the adult learners at the post-literacy programme level and the adult English instructors in the centres. The post-literacy programme is a part of continuing education that provides opportunities for adults and out-of-school youths to retain, improve and apply basic educational skills for personal, community and national development. The study found out that further 55 per cent indicated that they used scaffolding techniques. Some scaffolding techniques include giving mini-lessons where new concepts are broken down into bite-sized pieces that build on one another. The study concluded that the most frequently used strategies are demonstrations and group work. More scaffolding should be incorporated into the lessons. In teaching strategies teachers have measurable effects on the students’ quality of English Language Skills. The study recommended that teachers need to carefully select strategies to use in teaching the English Language to help adult learners acquire skills.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-20DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v3i1.231
Vitalis Kandie
This study sought to investigate the Kenyan generated neologisms as used in social media. This study was informed by the fact that human language is a dynamic and an ever-changing phenomenon only stable in performing its communicative function. The researcher conducted a Facebook survey as a representation of other social networking channels. The researcher purposely sampled 50 neologisms of Kenyan origin on Facebook and thereafter, using a descriptive qualitative data analysis approach, made a description of one of the commonest sites of social networking in Kenya, people from various walks of life engage on a litany of matters concerning their lives, be it political, socio-economic or even personal. Facebook was chosen explicitly for its wider outreach among Kenyans in comparison to other social networking channels. 50 neologisms belonging to Kenyan origin were purposively sampled on Facebook aftermath; a descriptive method of data analysis approach was used, to make a description of the word-formation processes, which are involved in their generation. A vast number of neologisms on Facebook belonging to Kenyan origin could be identified and documented by the study, most of them laced with a local flavour. Furthermore, the study analysed the word-formation processes that were involved in their development. Some of the neologisms with Kenyan origin documented in this study are; uhunye, saitan, isorait amongst others while some of the most common word formation processes employed include; loan translation, error, compounding and others. This study advocates for research on how words and expressions from indigenous Kenyan languages are being adopted in multicultural discourse among the diverse members of the Kenyan speech community through social media and general cross-cultural interactions.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.51317/ECJLLS.V2I1.154
Fredrick Meeme Irimba, Jacinta M. Ndambuki, F. Mwithi
The purpose of this study is to examine online hate discourse; with a focus on the construction of online ethno-political rhetoric as a form of hate speech during Kenya's 2017 general election. The study employed a qualitative case study design which entailed an empirical investigation of a particular phenomenon using multiple evidence. Purposive sampling allowed the researcher to observe, collect and analyse only the specific materials that had the characteristics relevant to the objective of this study. Working within Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) framework, we analyse a purposively selected sample of sixteen posts from FB (ten) and Twitter (six) derived from the initial sample of 360 posts collected through online observation of Facebook groups and hashtags trending in Kenya between July and November 2017. ‘The findings point at the shifting hate speech battle fields where ethno-political extremism in form of ‘Us against Them’ discourse finds easy expression online through dehumanizing epithets and metaphors that de-personalize and de-characterize the target, bringing to salience their perceived negative attributes in order to justify prejudice against them as a tool of political mobilization. These insights are relevant in understanding hate speech in multi-ethnic cultural contexts in society generally and specifically in Kenya. The study recommends that the government of Kenya and other key stakeholders should develop a media literacy policy on the moral responsibility in embracing netiquette and responsible netizenship in online interactions.
本研究的目的是研究网络仇恨话语;重点是在2017年肯尼亚大选期间构建在线种族政治言论，作为仇恨言论的一种形式。该研究采用定性案例研究设计，其中包括使用多种证据对特定现象进行实证调查。有目的的抽样允许研究者只观察、收集和分析具有与本研究目的相关的特征的特定材料。在计算机中介话语分析(CMDA)框架下，我们分析了有目的地从Facebook(10)和Twitter(6)中选择的16个帖子样本，这些帖子来自于2017年7月至11月期间通过在线观察肯尼亚Facebook群组和标签趋势收集的360个帖子的初始样本。“研究结果表明，仇恨言论的战场正在发生变化，以‘我们反对他们’(Us against Them)话语形式出现的种族政治极端主义，通过非人性化的绰号和隐喻在网上很容易表达出来，这些绰号和隐喻使目标失去了个性和特征，突出了他们被认为的负面属性，从而证明对他们的偏见是正当的，并将其作为政治动员的工具。”这些见解对于理解肯尼亚社会中多民族文化背景下的仇恨言论具有重要意义。该研究建议肯尼亚政府和其他主要利益相关者应制定一项媒体素养政策，以体现在网络互动中接受网络礼仪和负责任的网民身份的道德责任。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.51317/ecjlls.v2i1.139
Erick Kipkoech Mutai
The quest of this paper is to illuminate and celebrate Adichie’s Americanah as a text that opens our eyes to the challenges of African Diaspora in America. The need to offer different latitude of identity is aptly captured in Taya Zelase’s 2011 essay titled Afropolitanism, which has become a daring resurrection of debates that surrounds the ambiguity of contemporary African Diaspora. The need to analyse and interpret Afropolitanism as an emerging diaspora theory, which speaks to Africans diaspora was best located in the works of Adichie Chimamanda titled Americanah (2013). Indubitably, Adichie rebukes the dilemma of African Diaspora while at the same breath celebrates Africa as the ultimate space of identity and belonging. Locating itself within Afropolitanism theory as an emerging theory is a robust yardstick of interpreting textual response to the ambiguities of contemporary African Diaspora, the paper uses a close reading of Americanah to identify diasporic experiences, and how the characters negotiate them. By opening an honest conversation around the questions of belonging and identity, this study is instrumental in shedding light on the opaque sense of identity and the need for examining how modern African Diaspora negotiates the dehumanising aspect of Racism.
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This paper aims to uncover representations and framings of the HIV/AIDS phenomenon. The paper asks: What are the representations and framings of the HIV/AIDS phenomenon in HIV/AIDS discourse in Gikuyu AIDS "Mukingo" songs and common-talk by public transport operators in Nyeri town? Although HIV and AIDS are biomedical and social phenomena that affect Kenyan society to the core, HIV/AIDS discourse has not been investigated adequately, especially with regard to how its discourse is represented in the African languages. The language and topics of research on HIV/AIDS, based on Western perceptions of reality, continue to exclude and marginalize the Third World’s own perceptions of reality and what counts as knowledge in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The paper is hinged within the frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory (SFL) as the theoretical orientations to the study of HIV/AIDS discourse. To get the needed data, the paper used purposive, and snowball sampling was used due to the mobile nature of public transport operators. Structured interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGD) was also used for data collection. Data analysis was done using a traditional thematic analysis. Unpacking the social constructions of HIV/AIDS in this paper sheds light on the ways in which laypeople construct “common sense assumptions”, of the epidemic in the public realm.
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