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{"title":"Developing Pleasure Reading among Secondary Students: Critical Analysis of Approaches and Challenges","authors":"E. Okwako","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v2i1.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v2i1.150","url":null,"abstract":"Pleasure reading is defined as reading that is freely chosen by readers and that they enjoy reading (Rumbold 2006). According to Rumbold (ibid) pleasure reading has many benefits one of which is language acquisition. The world over, teachers of languages, whether first or second, are faced with the task of ensuring that students have a good mastery of the language they are learning. Research in language learning has shown that pleasure reading contributes immensely in mastering a language (Garside 1991, Barasa 2005 and Rumbold 2006). Therefore, language teachers should use pleasure reading as one of the approaches that should be used in the teaching and learning process. It is, therefore, important that a critical analysis of the development of pleasure reading is done. This article gives suggestions on the development of pleasure reading.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122604643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Syntactic Analysis of Raising Structures in Kĩmũthambĩ","authors":"Diana Kaburo","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.101","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a syntactic analysis of noun phrase movement in raising predicates in Kĩmũthambĩ, a Bantu language, spoken in Kenya. Kĩmũthambĩ belongs to the larger Kikuyu-Kamba group (E50) and is classified as E531 Mwimbi-Muthambi by Eberhard et al. (2022). The study is guided by the Minimalist Program developed by Chomsky (1995). This theory recognizes that there is always a trigger movement which is the need to check features at an appropriate landing site. The paper demonstrates that Raising in Kĩmũthambĩ is triggered by the need to check case features. Since raising verbs cannot assign case to a NP, the NP must move to a position in a sentence where it can be assigned case. This according to Carnie (2007) is due to the fact that the NP and the case assigner must be local in such a way that it must be the specifier or the complement of the case assigner, in order to check the feature of case. Case therefore becomes a mandatory trigger for movement of NPs that are not in positions that can be assigned case as in the case of raising predicates. The paper also demonstrates that unlike in English where raising occurs on non-finite clauses only, Kĩmũthambĩ allows raising of subjects out finite clauses a situation referred to as hyper-raising. This study contributes to the study of Kĩmũthambĩ, a language that has had little research attention. It also contributes to the body of knowledge on raising structures in Bantu languages.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An account of ambiguity as a feature evident in Ekegusii homograph sets","authors":"Alloys Maobe","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.99","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is based on the premise that any set of homographs in Ekegusii can be ambiguous if their contexts are merely considered during an interlocution. In this regard, limited adherence to the variations in meaning and pronunciation in different sets of homographs in Ekegusii can lead to communication breakdown. In a speech, for instance, a speaker can have limited knowledge or deliberately omit supra-segmental features that aid in comprehending the variations that exist between different sets of homographs. Therefore, the investigation aims at determining the extent to which ambiguity can be accounted for in Ekegusii homograph sets. The paper utilizes the Generative Lexicon Theory by Pustejovsky (1995). A descriptive research design was adopted. Data collection involved the use of a focus group discussion where six respondents drawn from Bogiakumu location in Kisii County were used as participants. Purposive sampling was used to identify the participants based on their proficiency and how they articulated Ekegusii expressions by making clear and consistent tonal distinctions. A combined data elicitation method from Ekegusii native speakers and the researcher’s native speaker intuition was used to collect homograph sets for analysis. It is hoped that the investigation will aid in eliminating any prejudices that might render incomprehensibility due to the inability to accurately pronounce or write sets of homographs in the language.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129872963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vowel Hiatus in Lubukusu Revisited: A Positional Faithfulness Reanalysis","authors":"H. Nandelenga","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.97","url":null,"abstract":"Previous phonological studies have indicated that a sequence of dissimilar hetero-syllabic/morphemic vowels are dispreferred across languages because it creates vowel hiatus. As a result, it may engender multiple repair mechanisms. However, the repair mechanisms do not apply liberally; they may be resisted in certain positions when segmental deletion or featural change fail to take place. Segments in phonetically and psycholinguistically privileged positions invariably resist such repair strategies that may be quite regular in the grammar of the language. In this study, a reanalysis of data from Lubukusu language (Bantu, Kenya) shows that a Positional Faithfulness (PF) account within an Optimality Theory (OT) framework may be felicitous in explaining both the initiation and resistance to the said repair processes. The findings indicate that the positional faithfulness of the vowel in question may determine whether it is deleted or which features may be changed based on a single constraint hierarchy in an optimal grammar of the language. Preservation of lexical contrast in positions that are critical in language processing is accounted for through positional sensitive constraint domination.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129082408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IMAGE REPAIR DISCOURSE OF KENYA POLICE FACING A SCANDAL","authors":"T. Sifuna","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.85","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to analyze image repair strategies employed in press releases issued by the Kenya police. The main aim of the study was to analyze the linguistic resources of image repair strategies in press releases issued by the Kenya police.  This study took the reporting periods from 30th March 2008 until 30th May 2012. Seven press releases were selected for analysis: Torture in Turkana, Mount Elgon operation saves lives, Criminal acts attributed to Mungiki, Human Rights Watch Report, brief on the explosion at Kampala coach offices, Allegations on the conspiracy of silence, and a Report on Post-Election Violence. Three major linguistic strategies are adopted: denial, reducing the offensiveness of the event, and corrective action. For this study, the linguistic resources used were the use of active, and passive voice and the use of modal auxiliaries verbs constructions.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115461779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Journalists and Civil Society View Gender Portrayal in Editorial Cartoons in Kenya’s Daily Nation and Standard Newspapers","authors":"Moses Wanyama Masinde, Masibo Lumala, Jared Obuya","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i2.73","url":null,"abstract":"Diverse views by scholars, policy makers as well as readers of newspapers and magazines, point to one critical issue that the media have of late become conduits for gender stereotyping not only in Kenya but the world over. This fact has been affirmed by public uproar against specific media houses in recent years after publishing cartoons that appeared offensive to sections of society. In some cases, such protests and reactions were very violent and claimed lives besides causing the destruction of property. Hinged on the Agenda setting theory, this paper refers to Kenya’s Daily Nation and Standard newspapers cartoon column in seeking to highlight what journalists and civil society consider to be the position of gender portrayed in editorial cartoons and whether by extension these cartoons subtly or unconsciously promote gender bias and stereotypical overtones. The qualitative case study was guided by the interpretivist philosophical paradigm. Besides the secondary data drawn from the two dailies, semi-structured interviews that targeted cartoonists, human rights, and gender activists from six purposely selected organizations were applied and analysed. The study finds bias and increased stereotypical overtones occasioned by a lack of resolve by the two media houses to adequately embrace gender sensitivity focus in the manner editorial cartoonists portray both men and women in the news. To cure the gender portrayal bias in the selected cartoons, there is need for specific in-housed editorial guidelines that will guide its creators.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133082408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Nature of Gender Portrayal in Editorial Cartoons: Analysis of Kenya’s Daily Nation and Standard Newspapers","authors":"Moses Wanyama Masinde, Masibo Lumala, Jared Obuya","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.70","url":null,"abstract":"Visual images often have lasting memory with the capacity to reveal the anguish of a tormented soul. It can stimulate sexual passion as well as generate intense feelings and excitement to the level of driving people to the bravery and barbaric acts.  These images evoke responses in people based on their interpretation of meanings informed by common beliefs and values. In most cases, the victims are subjected to gender-based humiliation in the public eye.  This paper investigates the nature of gender portrayal through selected editorial cartoons. This study is anchored on the relativist/interpretivist philosophical paradigm in which a qualitative case study design is adopted. The case in reference is the Daily Nation and the Standard newspapers of Kenya’s Nation Media Group and Standard Group, respectively. Data was generated from sampled cartoons published by the two dailies. The data was complemented by semi-structured in-depth interviews targeting the cartoonists, human rights activists, and gender specialists from selected organizations in Kenya. In total, 252 cartoons out of 2184 which is 11.5 percent, were sampled systematically through a six-week purposive sampling mechanism. Each week represented a month amounting to three years in a row. The findings of the study revealed that men were negatively represented in most of the cartoons. Specifically, men were linked to greed, corruption, political violence, and land grabbing among other issues. On the other hand, women were mostly portrayed as weak, helpless, vulnerable, and most afflicted. In over 30 of the sampled cartoons, women were projected as sexual objects and agents of beauty. And yet in some though only a few, the very women were projected as the voice of reason and one that could be entrusted with leadership and integrity. This study reveals the bias and increased stereotypical overtones and the inability of the two newspapers to adequately embrace gender sensitivity in the way cartoons portray both men and women to their readers. Editors, reporters, and cartoonists should remove bias and stereotypes in their portrayal of both men and women. To this end, urgent retraining and sensitization on gender sensitivity cartooning are highly recommended for media practitioners. Specific editorial guidelines for cartoonists and mentoring of female journalists to become cartoonists are equally required to mitigate biased cartooning.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123691556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of Language use in Healthcare Content Marketing on Consumer Behaviour among Facebook Users","authors":"Revocatus Millambo, Stellah Onyiego, Everlyn Kisembe","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.66","url":null,"abstract":"Driven by globalisation, content marketing (CM) has become one of the most strategic marketing approaches used to educate customers by providing valuable information through creative, educative, and persuasive language. This, in turn, influences consumer behaviour. However, it has been observed that content marketers in healthcare, particularly on Facebook, do not appropriately utilise language in producing educative content that can help achieve marketing objectives. Despite the institutional approval required from medical practitioners, some individuals may decide what products/services to use and how to use them to resolve health challenges or improve their health by reading content other than seeing a medical practitioner. This paper sought to investigate the language use of healthcare CM on Facebook and its impact on consumer behaviour. The study employed the Language Expectancy Theory (LET) to interpret and make conclusions based on the evidence provided in the written content on linguistic features and persuasive techniques. The descriptive research design was used to explain the persuasive use of language in influencing the audience. Document analysis was done based on excerpts of written content purposively selected from 11 healthcare Facebook pages. Four textual content items were further drawn from each, making 44 content items. Simple random sampling was then conducted to pick 23 content items considered in this paper. Data analysis involved a qualitative categorisation of the various themes of language use and feedback from Facebook users. The study found that language use impacted educating and influencing people to take action. After reading the content, feedback was received in the form of questions about pricing, selling points, and questions asking for further clarification. There were also comments in the form of appreciation, and customers raised complaints. The study concludes that linguistic features and persuasive techniques might have contributed to enhancing the content marketing messages. As a result, there was positive and negative feedback, which is very important in marketing. The study recommends that marketers should use linguistic and persuasive strategies when communicating with their customers and that they should make use of the feedback that they receive from their customers to improve on the use of language.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115699484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stylistic Choices in three Bongo Flava Songs: “Rita”, “Pii Pii” by Marlaw, and “Nikifa Kesho” by Diamond Platnumz","authors":"Joseph Thiongo, W. Kabira, Kimingichi Wabende","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.62","url":null,"abstract":"This article employs relevance theory to examine literary meaning encompassed in the stylistic use of language in the songs \"Pii Pii\", \"Rita\" by Marlaw, and the song \"Nikita Kesho\" by Diamond Platnumz. The article examines literary meanings that result from how the artist use language artistically at a lyrical level, to construct the message discernible in the songs. It is in this context surmised that the two artists use embellished language for a variety of reasons. As the article shows such, include entertainment, to elicit emotions, to conflate meanings, to mention a few. This article is important because it serves as a stepping-stone through which the research establishes connections and relationships between the literary meanings conveyed in stylistic use of language helps in bringing out the implied meanings, which Bongo Flava artists conflate and suggest in how they appropriate language artistically. This is because, despite Bongo Flava being too figurative in nature, highly stylistic, and poetic—what may be construed as mere artistic use of language for embellishment purposes, as the article shows, not only serve an entertainment value, but in addition, function to convey very meaning. The surface meaning that bears entertainment value as the article shows functions as a masking technique. This is because it defamiliarizes the serious meaning implied in the songs as the criticism of these features reveal in this article. The act of defamiliarization in this context is itself a practice of literary style intended to convey sensitive meanings in a slightly mild way for the sake of the sensitivity of the audience based on the cognitive and emotional effect unveiled language could have on the consequential effects, on the audiences, as the article shows.","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125635682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Travailler l’oral en français de spécialité: Quelles approches? Quelles stratégies?","authors":"Clara Lagat, Chokah Mudeizi, M. Kazadi","doi":"10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58721/jltcs.v1i1.51","url":null,"abstract":"L’objectif primordial de l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues  à des fins professionnelles est de faire s’approprier la compétence orale, fondamentale dans la réalisation de tâches professionnelles. Pour réaliser cet objectif, il s’avère nécessaire de mettre en œuvre des stratégies efficaces, y compris trouver les méthodologies les plus appropriées pour satisfaire les besoins immédiats des apprenants, en communication en général, et en expression orale en particulier. Les apprenants du français du tourisme, de l’hôtellerie et de la restauration au niveau supérieur du système éducatif kenyan, rencontrent des problèmes quant au développement de la compétence orale. Cette étude a comme objectifs principaux d’examiner les pratiques de classe, les méthodologies, voire les stratégies d’enseignement et d’évaluation, adoptées par les enseignants du français de spécialité (FS) et en deuxième lieu, de déterminer dans quelle mesure celles-ci favorisent l’acquisition des compétences orales chez les apprenants de ladite langue. Nous avons adopté une approche descriptive, employant des méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives de recueil des données. Les résultats de cette recherche révèlent que les méthodologies d’enseignement et d’évaluation utilisées par les enseignants du FS ne se prêtent pas à l’appropriation des compétences orales chez les apprenants concernés. Or, il est important que les enseignants soient capables de mettre en œuvre une grande variété de stratégies visées à l’enseignement efficace de l’oral. Pour ce faire, il serait demandé plus d’efforts de la part des enseignants du FS, et ce sur deux niveaux : poursuite de formations continues et continuées et application ou transfert de savoirs théoriques acquis lors de formations suivies en actions opérationnelles dans leurs pratiques enseignantes.\u0000Mots clés: Approche communic-actionnelle, formation des enseignants,  français de spécialité, Kenya, l’oral,  , socio-constructivisme","PeriodicalId":388567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130818273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}