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Řehák, Vilém. "US–Kenya Economic Relations under Obama and Their Image in the Kenyan News Discourse." Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 12, no. 1 (July 30, 2018): 72–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2018-0003.

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Abstract Economic cooperation between the US and Kenya has reflected the ups and downs in the relations between the two countries. Since independence, both countries have converged on security issues and diverged on questions of democracy and human rights. When Barack Obama was elected as the President of the US, Kenya expected to get an “Obama bonus” in the form of closer trade and investment cooperation. This article analyzes what is the image of US–Kenya economic relations in the news discourse. The analysis reveals that three different and competing narratives are present in the news discourse in Kenya. The US disseminates a narrative that economy, security, good governance and human resources are four interconnected and mutually reinforcing pillars of African development; Kenya must make progress in all these four pillars, and the US is ready to help Kenya. Kenyan leaders seem to internalize the economic part of the narrative and accept the nexus between economy and security, but they reject the nexus between economy and political issues. Finally, the Kenyan society internalizes both these narratives, albeit to a different degree, with the latter prevailing over the former. However, it also produces its own narrative, which presents current US–Kenya economic relations in a different perspective. The whole US engagement in Kenya hardly goes beyond the symbolical level. It is driven by US economic interests and competition with China, while there is no “Obama bonus” for Kenya.
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Oburu, Hildah, Bronwyné Coetzee, and Leslie Swartz. "Representing school arson in Kenya: An analysis of newspaper reporting." Global Media and Communication 16, no. 3 (July 30, 2020): 293–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766520946472.

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Arson is a recurrent problem in Kenyan secondary schools. Although school violence – notably gun violence – has received significant attention, there has been less academic attention paid to school arson, especially in Africa. This study explores how newspaper reports in Kenya framed school arson and links these framings to broader questions about the understanding and production of Kenyan identity. A thematic analysis of 334 newspaper reports revealed multiple understandings of school arson. Print media discourse afforded journalists an opportunity to make a commentary on the post-colonial globalized Kenyan society. We discuss the implications of this for understanding post-colonial media in Africa.
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Sang, James Kimeli, Dr Joseph Lelan, and Susan Jelagat Korir. "Pedagogic Discourse." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 2, no. 7 (July 31, 2014): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss7.206.

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HIV and AIDS is an epidemic that has remained a serious health concern across the globe for more than a quarter of a century since it was first diagnosed in 1981. This is in spite of a myriad of health education and prevention programs that have been developed and are in use. Current studies in Kenya concur that information on HIV and AIDS prevention is readily available. Focus is now on quality and policies that guide implementation of prevention education programs. This paper therefore attempts to give a detailed analysis of the HIV and AIDS curriculum that is used in Secondary Schools in Kenya. This is achieved by using Basil Bernstein’s model of Pedagogic discourse. This model entails a set of concepts and criteria which are invaluable in studying the curriculum. The classroom texts and class readers are critically analyzed using this model so as to illuminate on this curriculum.
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Matu, Peter M., and Hendrik Johannes Lubbe. "Investigating language and ideology." Journal of Language and Politics 6, no. 3 (December 31, 2007): 401–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.6.3.07mat.

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This article examines the application of two approaches from discourse analysis, that is, the ideological square from Critical Discourse Analysis and transitivity which is a component of Systemic Functional Grammar in the analysis of data extracted from the Kenyan print media. These two approaches are used to illustrate how different newspapers’ editorials portrayed various political groups in the run — up to the general elections in 1997 in Kenya. Thus attempts are made to show the role of newspapers editorials in articulating conflicting ideological positions in election reporting. In this paper an analysis is provided on how the Kenya print media represented and constructed political parties in the 1997 elections. The aim of this representation and construction is to show how political groups in the sense of us vs them and the representational processes of transitivity construct ideological discourse. The paper further illustrates how the concepts of ideological square and transitivity assist in making overt the mediation processes and practices that are generally, covertly, often unconsciously used in the construction and evaluation of participants in a political process.
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James Ogola Onyango, Douglas Nkumbo; Sheila P. Wandera-Simwa;. "Critical Discourse Analysis: Ideological Supremacy of Durex Adverts on Facebook Fan Page Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Literature and Linguistic Studies 1, no. 2 (July 5, 2019): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjlls.v1i2.61.

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The paper explores ideological supremacy of durex adverts on Facebook fan page Kenya by unpacking the dominant themes in the adverts. Sex education and safe sex advertising remain a global challenge due to its sensitivity and biases derived from attitudes and values that are either personal or related to religion and traditions. Some societies openly discuss taboo topics such as sex, sexual orientations and sexual practices while others are uneasy about doing so. This is a challenge to condoms promoters who use online means to reach people of different cultures worldwide. This study, therefore, critically analyzed Durex adverts in their Facebook fan page Kenya. The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) specifically Norman Fairclough’s 3 -D model and Kress and van Leeuwen’s Grammar of Visual Design. The research designs used was both quantitative and descriptive. Data was collected through making an online observation, retrieving and electronically storing. Purposive sampling procedure was used to arrive at 150 adverts (visuals and written) were downloaded from the Durex Facebook fan page Kenya for analysis. The findings showed that the most dominant theme was pleasure derived from using Durex condoms. Rational appeal was most dominant, and various metaphors were used in Durex adverts to ideologically construct super Durex using various discourses to avoid discussing matters of sex openly. This research will add knowledge to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially in health communication and taboo topics.
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Wanjiku, Kinuthia, Jane, Wathika Lucy Njeri, Mwai Wamaitha Loise, and Yakobo, J. K. Mutiti. "Analysis of Language used in Gikuyu Marriage Negotiation Discourse." International Journal of Linguistics 8, no. 2 (April 20, 2016): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v8i2.9152.

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<p>This paper which focuses on language use within the formal discursive process of negotiating and legalising marriage in the domain of ‘<em>Ruracio</em>’ or bride wealth payment amongst the <em>Agikuyu</em> of Kenya was conceived on the premise that language is a significant phenomenon in the production and maintenance of social relations of power. The focus is on language elements that are both linguistic and non-linguistic and their influence on the concepts of gender and power as brought out through the data collected for this study. Data, consisting of five recorded discourses from sampled negotiation sessions and five focus group discussions from Kiambu County Kenya, was translated, transcribed and analysed with a view of examining how people use language to accomplish social acts. The findings are that language use, linguistic or non-linguistic, demonstrates that <em>Gikuyu</em> marriage negotiation discursive domain is male dominated, it constructs roles and identities and also defines how people can have power over others to a level that they control their behavior. It is hoped that the findings will be useful to all language users in this domain as well as contributing to knowledge in discourse analysis. </p>
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Maina, Macharia Daniel. "A Linguistic Analysis of Translation Errors on Selected Public Notices in Kenya." Editon Consortium Journal of Literature and Linguistic Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjlls.v1i1.54.

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This paper purposes to analyse translation errors in selected Kenyan public notices. Specifically, it examines how translation faults possess unique linguistic resources. There is an extensive existence of this genre countrywide albeit without proper academic scrutiny to further interrogate fundamental linguistic concepts therein. It involves the application of the Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) which is unique to the analysis of this genre. Specifically, this research involves collecting data from the social media of the relevant public notices in Kenya. Generally, twelve signage were analysed. The sampling procedure was done purposively to include the diversity of Kenya. To qualify, the data collected had to reflect translation blunders. Then, the data was analysed for linguistic resources. The data was presented using a table showing the relationship between the components sought. Consequently, the study enriched translational linguistics, evaluated textual analysis and critiqued the linguistic concepts of performance and competence. Additionally, it provided useful insights into the cognitive mechanisms used during humour production and understanding.
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Plummer, Anita. "Kenya and China's labour relations: infrastructural development for whom, by whom?" Africa 89, no. 4 (November 2019): 680–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019000858.

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AbstractThe Kenyan government's long-term development strategy, Vision 2030, has emphasized infrastructural investments, which it believes will lead to sustained economic growth. The government has appealed to China to fund large-scale projects in the transport sector, and as a consequence of this, construction firms from China have emerged as significant employers in the country. While the Kenyan government contends with the ongoing burden of youth unemployment, it must also reconcile the ambiguities of China's role in Africa and its implications for the labour market. This article examines two Chinese-built infrastructure projects in Kenya and their intersection with several issues involving migrant labour and local rumours of Chinese prisoners, as well as the state's vision for industrialization and youth employment. Kenyans utilize both online and interpersonal channels of discourse to critique present-day employment practices in the transport sector, and it is argued that these counter-channels of discourse represent a particular articulation of knowledge used by Kenyans to construct meaning and interpret ambiguous situations. Through a theoretical analysis of rumour, this article illustrates how ordinary Kenyans are pooling their intellectual resources to understand Sino-Kenyan labour relations in the absence of transparency and participatory government processes in the infrastructure sector.
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Otieno, Raphael Francis. "Metaphors in Political Discourse in Kenya: Unifying or Divisive?" International Journal of Learning and Development 9, no. 2 (June 12, 2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijld.v9i2.14918.

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Metaphor has been viewed as a tool that is used in political discourse to structure human thought. In the structuring function of metaphor, it is assumed that there is a similarity between the source and the target domains. However, the similar structure in the target domain does not always exist before the metaphor is coined (Lakoff & Turner, 1989). Rather, the metaphor can create the similar structure in the target domain. The politicians’ reference to war, religion, business and animals among others, therefore, serves to structure and limit the thought of the electorates to view politics from certain perspectives. The basic argument in this study is, therefore, that metaphors are ingrained in our conceptual faculties and play a significant role in structuring our thought patterns in politics. The structuring through metaphor can, however, either be positive and/or negative. In other words, the structuring could either be unifying or divisive. As Rozina (2001:12) asserts, ‘…political discourse is primarily focused on persuading people to take specified political actions or to make crucial political decisions.’ Using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), this study investigated the extent to which metaphors in political discourse in Kenya create, reflect or symbolize the values of national unity and inclusiveness enshrined in the Constitution of Kenya. The study found that both positive and negative axiological values are present in metaphors in political discourse in Kenya. However, the negative axiological value overrides the positive value.
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Monk, Jeremy. "Placing blame or a call to action? An analysis of Uwezo in the Kenyan press." education policy analysis archives 28 (December 14, 2020): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5268.

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Citizen-led assessments were developed in the mid-2000s to gather evidence on children’s learning outcomes following the rapid increase in primary student enrolment in the developing world. Integral to their philosophy is social accountability and community engagement. While most large-scale assessments focus on test-based accountability to promote policy shifts, citizen-led assessments, utilizing the information-accountability causal chain, theorize that information of low learning outcomes, disseminated widely, will engage stakeholders in activities and debates, ultimately leading to improvements in education quality and service delivery. This paper examines Uwezo, the oldest citizen-led assessment in East Africa, and its portrayal in the Kenyan print media. I explore whether discourse concerning Uwezo exposes education quality issues while promoting citizen engagement and how Uwezo’s social accountability philosophy is used in public discourse through the lens of political evolutionary mechanisms. I find that Uwezo’s findings were prominently discussed beginning in 2013, but that shock value of low learning levels has since decreased. Moreover, public discourse has highlighted cross-national and provincial/county comparisons in achievement levels while focusing on blaming teachers and the education system’s culture. Although Uwezo has succeeded in disseminating its findings widely in Kenya, there is minimal engagement in public discourse with its social accountability and community engagement philosophy and discourse does not promote citizen action on a national level. As Uwezo has become a respected education policy player in East Africa, and globally, it must find ways to engage communities to act upon its findings to directly improve education quality.
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Ekelund, Nord Lina. "Det riktiga Kenya och orientaliska Tunisien : En diskursanalys av Lonely Planets guideböcker om Tunisien och Kenya." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17297.

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Presentations of Oriental people as subordinated the West and their ideals was one way for Europeans to expand and keep control over their colonies in Africa during the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. France and Great Britain controlled their colonies in different ways which has led to diverse legacies. Today, tourism is a source of revenue for former colonies, such as Tunisia and Kenya, and tourism also helps to spread knowledge and images of distant countries. A guidebook is one way that knowledge of other countries and people are spread to travelers. During history, images of distant people were based on a colonial discourse in which the west was seen as superior; but is that still the case? The purpose of this paper was to analyze how Tunisia and Kenya are presented in the Lonely Planet guide to Tunisia and the Lonely Planet guide to Kenya to investigate if they are constructed through a colonial discourse, and to see if there are any dissimilarities on how they are presented. With a postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis and with a colonial discourse as framework, the guidebooks were examined to see how people and culture were presented. The research showed that Lonely Planet guidebooks use a colonial discourse in the presentation of Tunisia and Kenya where distinctions are made between the inhabitants and the western world. The Orient was subordinated the superior Occident which reinforces the notion of others as being different and less than the west. Diversities between how Tunisia and Kenya were drawn in the guidebooks were found. The colonial heritage was more present in Tunisia than in Kenya, while in Kenya the people were presented as more brutal than in Tunisia. Reasons for that could be many, but the critical issue is why the western world still constructs other people as subordinate and different.
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Bradfield, Sarah-Jane. "A critical discourse analysis of the Daily Nation and the Standard’s news coverage of the 2007/2008 Kenyan elections." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63437.

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This study investigates the Daily Nation and Standard’s news coverage of Kenya’s 2007/2008 general election and the unprecedented eruptions of violence which followed. This research responds to the question which came about as Kenyan print journalists and editors considered their role in possibly contributing to the violence, which took on an ethnic dimension. Vernacular radio has been fingered for having escalated longstanding ethnic tensions, but the role of the press has not been fully understood. In the aftermath of the violence, print journalists and editors met over a series of Round Table events in Nairobi to consider whether their conduct during the election could have encouraged violence. Although ten years have passed since this incidence, much of what happened within the Kenyan print media during and after the 2007/2008 general election remains unexplored and, largely, unexplained today. Although the pre- and post-election phases spanned months, my research is confined to purposive samples from a four-week period from 3 December 2007 to 4 January 2008. These four weeks were selected as they are roughly representative of the three phases of the national election which are considered significant to this study, namely the pre-election phase, the election, and the post-election violence. The research is concerned with analysing and understanding the coverage in the two dailies, the Daily Nation and Standard, and comparing the discursive work of the two, particularly in relation to identity and ethnicity. This study draws on cultural studies, critical discourse analysis and normative theories of the media to inform the research project. The critical discourse analysis explores the discourses articulated during and after the election, with a particular focus on issues of identity, ethnicity and incitement. Through this process the study found that both publications avoided references to ethnicity, despite this being an important factor in Kenyan politics and voter behaviour. In analysing these issues the study found that while the publications might claim to attempt to avoid fuelling tensions by not reporting on ethnicity, the disavowal comprised a silence which positioned the press in a collaborative role, in which it colluded with a powerful Kenyan state. Although a significant amount of time has gone by since the 2007/2008 elections, this study still considers the event significant in understanding the conduct of journalists during times of violence, and specifically for the future of journalism in Kenya.
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Oketch, Omondi. "Language use and mode of communication in community development projects in Nyanza province, Kenya." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2137_1182812003.

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The concept of community development is founded on the premise that changes in the living conditions of people are best effected by the people themselves. The term community evokes the idea of a homogeneous social group who can recognise their common interests and work together harmoniously for their common good. The concerns of the leading development agents and donors in the past two decades have been on empowering communities to participate in their own development by taking control of decisions and initiatives that seek to improve their living conditions. The zeal to address these concerns has in the past decade been pushed with such resounding statements that people&rsquo
s participation in development projects has not only been seen as a basic human right, but also as an imperative condition for human survival. It has been strongly argued in the UNDP reports that the overall development strategy is to enable people to gain access to a much broader range of opportunities.


From this perspective, development as a social activity seeks to ensconce economic liberalisation, freedom of association, good governance and access to free market economy as the guiding tenets of an improved life in all communities in the world. The realization of this dream posed a major challenge to many governments in the Third World and the 1980s saw the emergence of &lsquo
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the proliferation of small-scale non governmental organizations (NGOs) with relative autonomy from the state. The mainstream development agencies perceived the NGOs as the best instruments to instigate changes in the living conditions of the poor and the disadvantaged people. For this reason, NGOs became increasingly instrumental in implementing development objectives in the rural and disadvantaged communities. Development in this sense consists of processes in which various groups are stimulated to improve aspects of their lives particularly by people from outside their community. This has drawn attention to how these outsider- development agents communicate development information particularly due to the sociolinguistic situation in many rural African communities. The real concern is with is that the target majority of the people in the rural areas are not speakers of the dominant languages of the development discourse, in most cases this is the official foreign languages taught in schools.


Communication is a fundamental part in community development programmes and language emerges as a key factor in effective communication and implementation of these programmes. While it is evident that social interactions are sustained by agreeable communicative principles, the role of language and the different mode of communication applied to development interventions have received very little attention from the parties concerned. This has yielded detrimental repercussions in the quality of interaction at the grassroots level. More often than not, it is assumed that once there is a common language, effective communication will take place and for this reason language use and mode of communication are never given much thought in the field of development interaction.

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Kinuthia, Victoria Kendi. "Managing stakeholder relations in protracted crisis situations : a discourse analysis of corruption through the Goldenberg and Anglo-Leasing cases of Kenya." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11307/.

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Crisis Communication frameworks are essentially restricted to Corporate Communications and Public Relations theory and are mainly developed for use in corporate settings. They therefore do not readily transfer to the public sector where " ... the notion of crisis as process, the transnational dimensions of contemporary crises, the politicization of crises, [and] the increasing importance of the media ... " exacerbates the complexity and longevity of these crises. (Rosenthal, 2003:129). To address this, I have chosen to conduct this study in the public sector, where the increased complexity and mutability of protracted crises and the ensuing impact on stakeholder relations provides an opportunity to extend debates' in Crisis Communication and Stakeholder Relationship Management. To do this, I embark on an analysis of the Goldenberg and Anglo- Leasing corruption Cases of Kenya and explore the impact of the resultant crises on the relationship between the Government of Kenya (GoK), and the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI), as a keys stakeholder group. In what is a new approach' to a study of this kind, I combine Computer-aided Corpus Linguistic Analysis (CLA) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Starting off with the CLA, I analyse select' media texts, GoK reports and BWI reports, so as to: identify linguistic patterns within these texts; interpret what these patterns represent; and demonstrate how these representations lead to the emergence and mobilisation of concepts within the data. Secondly, I lift the study to the level of discursive practice, where my objectives are to: analyse the linguistic patterns over time; identify emerging and competing Discourses; explore what these Discourses represent as part of the GoK's sensemaking/giving efforts; and establish the impact on the relationship between the BWI and the GoK over time. Ultimately, based on the findings of this study, I suggest an arena model as an alternative to conduit models of communication where the crisis takes centre stage and the organisation, the public, the media and other stakeholders become active participants ih the crisis resolution process. I also make methodological contributions to Discourse Analysis by demonstrating that CLA can provide a more objective and standardised way of labelling discourses.
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Karlsson, Lavanya. "Is China a friend or foe? : A critical discourse analysis of how Chinese foreign aid is portrayed in Tanzanian and Kenyan newspapers." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100516.

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Foreign aid is a constantly debated and researched subject. Chinese foreign aid towards Africa and other parts of the world is not without scrutiny. China sees their foreign aid as a tool of soft power, that they use to gain a more positive image and increase cooperation. This study aims to add to the debate through an investigation of how Chinese foreign aid is portrayed in Tanzanian and Kenyan newspapers. The method used to examine newspaper articles in this study is a Critical Discourse Analysis based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. The study uses the concept of soft power to analyse different themes found through the CDA. In addition, a comparison between Tanzania and Kenyan newspapers is made.  The findings of this study show a variation of positive and more critical themes in Tanzanian news media while Kenyan news media has themes based on a more critical point of view. The critical themes may show challenges towards Chinese soft power and its strive for a positive image of their foreign aid towards the Tanzanian and Kenyan public. However, how much of a challenge this poses cannot be concluded within this study. As government leaders and heads of states are contributing to uphold a positive image of Chinese aid, particularly in Tanzania this is seen as a positive thing for China’s aim to gain a more attractive image.
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Bwire, David. "Meaning Across Difference: Exploring Intercultural Communication Strategies in an Alaska-Kenya Collaboration." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469088653.

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Journo, Aurelie. "Kwani ? : agent de renouvellement de la vie littéraire kényane ? : Première approche d'une revue littéraire contemporaine." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2023.

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Ce travail s’intéresse à une revue littéraire kényane contemporaine, Kwani?, créée au Kenya en 2003. Présentée par ses fondateurs comme une plateforme d’expression pour une nouvelle génération d’auteurs aux trajectoires souvent transnationales, elle représente un objet d’étude aux multiples facettes. Objet textuel hybride qui intègre une grande variété de textes, interface entre différents champs discursifs, la revue littéraire est également le fruit d’une démarche collective construite par des agents qui appartiennent à un réseau de sociabilité mouvant. L’appréhender requiert donc que l’on s’intéresse à son contenu et à sa forme, tout en la replaçant dans son contexte précis de production, de diffusion et de réception, contexte sur-déterminé par les conditions politiques, idéologiques et socio-économiques propres au pays. L’analyse des modalités par lesquelles cette revue a fait son entrée sur la scène littéraire nationale permet ainsi de mettre au jour le fonctionnement particulier d’un champ littéraire kényan embryonnaire, imbriqué dans l’espace littéraire mondial, et fondé sur un certain nombre de règles du jeu que la revue prétend subvertir. Notre démarche s’appuie sur les apports récents de la sociologie de la littérature et de l’analyse du discours pour proposer une première analyse du phénomène Kwani? à même de mettre en lumière la façon dont la revue et ses collaborateurs, dans leur grande diversité, participent à un renouveau littéraire à l’échelle nationale et régionale, et entament ce faisant un mouvement de reconfiguration de l’espace littéraire mondial
This dissertation focuses on Kwani?, a contemporary literary journal started in 2003 in Kenya. Presented by its founders as a platform of expression for a new generation of mainly transnational writers, it stands as a multifaceted object of analysis. A hybrid object integrating a wide variety of texts and an interface between different discursive fields, Kwani? is also the result of a collective endeavour from gathering writers who are part of an ever-fluctuating and transnational sociability network. Assessing such an object requires, therefore, taking an interest in its content and its form, while replacing its creation in its specific context of production, diffusion, and reception, a context which is over-determined by local political, ideological, and socio-economic factors. Analysing the circumstances in which the journal entered the national scene thus allows to uncover the particular workings of this embryonic literary field, which is founded on a certain number of rules that the journal claims to subvert, and which is strongly interlinked with the global literary world. Drawing on recent contributions from the fields of discourse analysis and sociology of literature, we aim to offer an original study of the Kwani? phenomenon identifying the ways in which the journal and its collaborators, in their great diversity, take part in a national and regional literary renewal and thereby initiate a movement towards the reshaping of the global literary world
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Ndungu, Francis Gitonga. "Vers l'acquisition de la morphosyntaxe du français chez les lycéens nairobiens : perspectives sociolinguistiques et didactiques." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0271.

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Cette recherche pseudo-longitudinale privilégiant une approche sociolinguistique et didactique s’inscrit dans le domaine du développement de l’interlangue à travers l’analyse des erreurs morphosyntaxiques du français. Notre public s’est compose des lycéens kenyans anglophones. Cela a été effectué au sein de la capitale du Kenya, Nairobi et de sa banlieue. Les entretiens sur le terrain comprenant des exercices descriptifs et conversationnels à l’oral et à l’écrit, ont mené à la description, l’analyse et l’étiologie des erreurs morphosyntaxiques en français langue étrangère (désormais FLE) dans les productions des apprenants dans un contexte lycéen. L’analyse de ce corpus écrit et oral a révélé les erreurs morphosyntaxiques écrites et orales en français les plus récurrentes ainsi que leurs causes chez les lycéens kenyans. Ce travail s’achève par l’élaboration de propositions didactiques à l’écrit et à l’oral présentant des pistes de réflexion sur la remédiation des erreurs morphosyntaxiques des lycéens kenyans
This research favoring a sociolinguistic and didactic approach is based on the development of interlanguage through the analysis of morphosyntactical errors in French by English speaking Kenyan high school students in Nairobi and its suburbs. Field research composed of descriptive and conversational oral and written exercises in French as a foreign language was carried out on selected high school students. This paved way to the description and analysis of morphosyntactical errors in French. The analysis of the written and oral corpus helped to identify the most recurrent morphosyntactical and written errors in French, as well as their etiology. This pseudo-longitudinal research culminated in suggested written and oral didactical activities aimed at the correction of these morphosyntactical errors
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Misturelli, Federica. "Never the twain shall meet : a comparative analysis of the discourses of development professionals and the narratives of poor livestock keepers in Kenya." Thesis, University of Reading, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501346.

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Poverty is arguably the most critical and central concept of development. Indeed, without the poor, clearly 'development' would not be required. Nevertheless, our conceptual relationship to poverty over the years, at the very least, may be described as contentious. Equally problematic, how notions of poverty are accepted or contested by 'those who need to be developed' i.e. the poor themselves, is often unknown. Thus, from the outset, this thesis posits that despite recent attention to the 'voices' of the poor, it is likely that there is a large conceptual fault line between development actors and the poor themselves over the most central concept of development: poverty. Clearly any such schism will ultimately influence the ability of development processes to deliver, with regard to poverty alleviation.
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Katiambo, David. "Incivility in social media as agonistic democracy? : a discourse theory analysis of dislocation and repair in select government texts in Kenya." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26580.

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In an era when adversarial politics is condemned for either being archaic or right-wing extremism, proposing that incivility can be used to counter existing hegemonies, despite its potential to incite violence, is proposing an unorthodox project. By rejecting foundationalist approaches to the current incivility crisis, this study sees an opportunity for it to act as a populist rapture that defies simple binary categorisation and deconstructs incivility, at an ontological level, to reveal the deep meanings and concealed causes that contrast the grand narrative of hate speech. After an overview in chapter one, the study continues with a theoretical review of literature on incivility, guided by the works of radical democracy theorists who universalise what seems particular to Kenya. This review is followed by the description of Bakhtin’s concept of carnivalesque as utani, a joking relationship common in East Africa. For its theoretical perspective, the study is guided by Mouffe’s theory of agonistic democracy and a research method developed by transforming Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) work in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic, into a method for Discourse Analysis. Various concepts from Laclau and Mouffe’s work are used to innovate an explanation of how political practices in social media, both linguistic and material texts, enhance incivility and the struggle to fix a regime’s preferred meaning. Guided by Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Analysis, the study describes how the government is using linguistic tools and physical technologies to repair the dislocation caused by incivility in social media in its attempts to re-create hegemonic practices. Without engaging in naïve reversal of the polarities between acceptable and unacceptable speech, and considering that at the ontological level politics is a friend—enemy relation, the study argues that incivility in social media is part of the return of politics in a post-political era, rather than simple unacceptable speech. While remaining aware of the dangers of extreme speech, but without reinforcing the anti-political rational consensus narrative, incivility is seen as having disruptive counterhegemonic potential, that is, if we consider the powerplay inherent in democracy. It means that binary opposition is blind to the way power produces, and is countered through unacceptable speech.
Communication Science
D. Litt. et Phil. (Communication Science)
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Books on the topic "Discourse analysis – Kenya"

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Studies in Kigiryama grammar & discourse: Notes on some features of discourse and grammar in the Giryama language of Kenya, observed in procedural and hortatory discourse. Kilifi, Kenya: Giryama Bible Translation & Literacy Project, 1993.

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Switzer, Heather D. "“Girls are the most powerful force of change on the planet.”." In When the Light Is Fire, 1–28. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042034.003.0001.

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The Introduction, “Situating Schoolgirlhood,” introduces readers to the local context of the case-study communities in Kajiado County, Kenya, and elaborates key concepts, including inhabited agency, girl-effects logic, and gendered responsibility and obligation. The chapter argues for the relevance of “postfeminism” and “girlpower”—concepts derived through analysis of girls’ lives in the Global North— for understanding Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls’ compelling insights that trouble the reductive demographic notion of “a girl enrolled in school” that animates development discourse targeting girls’ lives for intervention and investment. By tracing the outlines of “schoolgirlhood” as a specific kind of gendered and generational cultural space for girls who go to school, the introduction foreshadows subsequent chapters that each elaborate aspects of schoolgirlhood as narrated by schoolgirls, mothers, and teachers.
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Otieno, Jeremiah Edwine, Bernard Gichimu Karanja, and Michael Tedd Okuku. "Primary Socialization on the Formation of Child Behaviors in Kenya." In Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 317–37. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6471-4.ch017.

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Early childhood socialization is particularly important in the formation of personality. Usually, through socialization, children learn to make important future choices in all spheres of life. This can be in terms of political, social, economic, and physical decision making. Recently, children have been reported to use inappropriate language on adults and their mates; fighting teachers, parents, and adults; burning schools; abusing drugs; engaging in premarital sex; even trafficking drugs; among other social vices. Moreover, children have been seen to value ethnic and religious pessimism. The pessimism has led to the retention of negative ethnicity leading to prejudice and stereotyping. Studies have pointed out poor parenting as the main cause for this disturbing trend. The study was guided by the social learning theory and cognitive development theory. The study adopted a simple analytical framework—the search, appraisal, synthesis, and analysis (SALSA)—to examine the main review types. Data were analyzed using discourse and content analysis.
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Cavallo, Vincenzo. "Kenya e-Participation Ecologies and the Theory of Games." In Human-Centered System Design for Electronic Governance, 272–89. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3640-8.ch016.

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An e-Participation ecology is composed of five elements—actors, contents, traditional culture of participation, existing media skills and practices, and discourses in conflicts (establishment vs. antagonists)—and three macro-dimensions—cultural/traditional, political, and socio-technological–with which the five elements are interacting (Cavallo, 2010). Game theory can be used to understand how a certain actor or a group of actors can develop a successful strategy in/for each one of the three dimensions. Therefore, the concept of Nash equilibrium (Nash Jr., 1950), developed in physics and successfully applied in economy and other fields of study, can be borrowed also by e-Participation analysts/project managers to develop “Win-Win” scenarios in order to increase e-Participation projects’ chances of success and consequently reduce e-Participation’s “risk of failures,” especially in developing countries where they usually occur more frequently (Heeks, 2002). The Kenyan e-Participation platform, Ushahidi, generated a techno-discourse about the rise of African Cyberdemocracy and the power of crowd-sourcing that is probably more relevant than the real impact that these e-Participation platforms had or will have on the lives of normal citizens and media activists.
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Muluka, Sophie. "Hate Speech and Competitive Politics." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 184–98. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9613-6.ch012.

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The study was motivated by identified gaps in literature, theory and practice on hate speech's role in perpetuating negative ethnicity and youth violence. The study sought to add to existing knowledge with modifications to the Critical Race Theory, highlighting ethnicity as a dominant factor in Kenya's political and social discourse. The study is founded on the Pragmatic Paradigm, employing various mixed methods techniques. The sample of the study was 150 youth drawn from a Kenyan University and University College through simple random sampling. Convenience sampling was used to select a sample for Focus Group Discussions. Five members of ethnic-affiliated university student associations were interviewed and snowball sampling used to identify five members of the Mungiki sect for interview. Data was analyzed by linking the research objectives to the data analysis procedure, transcribing data and analyzing textual content to determine features characterizing hate speech based on the target group's perceptions, thus generating themes for analysis to facilitate the building of theory.
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