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Publikováno v:
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Vol 10, Pp 57-81 (2011)
In order to revitalize African languages and advocate for their use as media of instruction in Kenyan schools, it is important to investigate and document the teachers’ attitude towards the use of these languages in teaching. The research on which
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https://doaj.org/article/265c26fd145546adbd973ae7b8d4c5ce
Publikováno v:
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 21-27 (2019)
Political campaigns are emotive activities that rely on language to attract the attention of the public. In fact, electioneering periods in Kenya are heavily laced with idiomatic expressions such that one would be required to use the interrelatedness
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::4b86dfcd40a114a40c6534648c2c50dd
https://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/5721
https://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/5721
Interpreting the Human Being Metaphors in Ekegusii Pop Songs Using the Cognitive Semantics Framework
Publikováno v:
Issues in Language Studies, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 73-86 (2018)
The paper explores the human being metaphors in Ekegusii pop songs (EPS). Composers of EPS use human being metaphors to convey their message in different perspectives. It is possible for the meaning of the human being metaphors to elude the audience
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6f49bee6595a3335b0c23fc250931824
https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.1612.2018
https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.1612.2018
Publikováno v:
Bulletin of Advanced English Studies. 2:79-89
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::bfa24c49a3d3a1a8eb061e8eea3f6144
https://doi.org/10.31559/baes2019.2.2.4
https://doi.org/10.31559/baes2019.2.2.4
Publikováno v:
Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 5:341-358
Using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this study discusses the transfer of semantic aspects of foodsemic metaphors upon the abstraction of love. An interview schedule was administered to 48 respondents of different gender by the researchers assisted
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::094a6d52e78092f22f7e4745d4a906fc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00024.gat
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00024.gat
Autor:
Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, Ruiming Wang, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Manqiong Shen, Moses Gatambuki Gathigia, Carlos A Tirado, Ricardo Minervino
Publikováno v:
Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 5:359-375
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psychological, social and religious interdictions in language such that people resort to the use of metaphors to avoid confronting death. Under the premis
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::902dcc37e1a6f854b239753e93f90a97
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00025.gat
https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00025.gat
Publikováno v:
Journal of Arts and Humanities, Vol 7, Iss 8, Pp 23-29 (2018)
The notion of semantic field is a structural model for lexical semantics which is attributed to Jost Trier in the Semantic Field Theory. The semantic field is an indispensable part of any language since without it information may not be conveyed appr
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doajarticles::13c6a27c03a70eb4a4909fd0a05b25f9
https://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/1465
https://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/1465
Autor:
Moses Gatambuki Gathigia
Publikováno v:
Journal of Cognitive Science. 18:215-235
Externí odkaz:
https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::ce96ad04ee2529fbf8d5286fcccd3d67
https://doi.org/10.17791/jcs.2017.18.2.215
https://doi.org/10.17791/jcs.2017.18.2.215
Publikováno v:
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 33-40 (2016)
The acquisition of idiomatic expressions is one of the primary challenges to learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in multilingual contexts such as Kenya; yet, the learners are expected to use these expressions in their writing. The study on
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doajarticles::8136c88871d3e0898fa077dff102b4b6
http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2119
http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2119
Publikováno v:
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 9-16 (2020)
Idioms have been studied for a considerable time by linguists with a view of explaining their meaning. In Gĩkũyũ, for example, the meaning of most idioms can be derived from constituents that form them. However, in some Gĩkũyũ idioms, the meani
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::dbc276e6d4736422e88c2ebe36c7bf85
https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.3p.9
https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.3p.9