Katika makala hii tunajadili jinsi simu tamba inavyotumika kama nyenzo katika uandishi, ukuzaji n... more Katika makala hii tunajadili jinsi simu tamba inavyotumika kama nyenzo katika uandishi, ukuzaji na usambazaji wa ushairi miongoni mwa Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na hatimaye watu wengine kote ulimwenguni. Ili kutimiza malengo haya tumetumia dhana ya utandawazi kama dhana changanuzi na vilevile Nadharia ya Kisosholojia ya Kiuhakiki lli kuchambua masuala ya kimaudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba. Data ya utafiti huu imekusanywa kutokana na kutangamana na jumuiya ya Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya kupitia simu tamba. Mmoja wa waandishi wa kazi hii pia ni Mswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na mshiriki katika mitagusano hii ya ushairi wa simu tamba. Katika kazi hii tumeangazia maudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba miongoni mwa Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na vilevile kuonesha baadhi ya mitindo inayopendelewa katika ushairi huu. Imebainika kuwa maudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba katika eneo la Pwani ya Kenya yanahusu salamu za kutakiana heri siku ya Ijumaa na wakati wa mfungo wa Ramadhani. Masuala mengine ya kij...
This paper is about impoliteness in modern taarab music. It focuses mainly on impoliteness strate... more This paper is about impoliteness in modern taarab music. It focuses mainly on impoliteness strategies occasionally used by some artists of selected modern taarab music on the island of Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania; where politeness is culturally embedded. Although taarab music is composed, played and performed across the East African coast, we selected taarab from Zanzibar island and mainland Tanzania for this study because these regions are arguably the hub of modern styles, innovations, presentations, performances and singing of taarab music. Data for this study were obtained from YouTube where some lyrics from modern taarab were purposively selected for analysis. We selected a sample of eight taarab songs that we thought were representative in answering the question of impoliteness in taarab music. The data were qualitatively analysed using Culpeper’s (1996) impoliteness model. It was found that modern taarab music is a highly dialogic and interactive sub-genre which is sensati...
International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics
This study demonstrates that self-interpretation does indeed occur in Kenyan courtroom proceeding... more This study demonstrates that self-interpretation does indeed occur in Kenyan courtroom proceedings, a situation that necessitates the use of a language other than the regular and official languages of Kenyan courts. Such language use rendered mostly in terms of self-interpretation has far-reaching ramifications on the content, facts, style, and meaning predispositions of a witness's testimony. Most studies in courtroom communicative interactions, language, and speech manifestations, have been largely and dominantly sociolinguistic in approach and there is so much that has been asserted in that dimension. However, this study's point of departure is that it seeks to adopt a Translation Studies approach to analyze self-interpreted presentations made by four witnesses in selected criminal cases at Kisii Law Courts in Kenya. Their self-interpreted testimonies which constitute the data used in this discussion were collected between October 2020 and June 2021. The testimonies rende...
This study attempted an understanding of political language in Kenya. It specifically focused on ... more This study attempted an understanding of political language in Kenya. It specifically focused on the problems of cohesion, coherence and pragmatic meaning in selected texts of Swahili political speeches. To handle these disparate problems of Swahili discourse , we used the eclectic approach that comprised of Cohesion approach by Halliday and Hasan (1976), Topic Framework approach by Brown and Yule (1983) and the Implicature approach by Paul Grice (1975). This thesis is organised into six chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It treats introductory elements of this study i.e. introduction, statement of the problem, aims, rationale of the study, hypotheses, scope, literature review and finally methodology. The second chapter which deals with pragmatic meaning focuses on two rhetorical devices i.e. metaphor and rhetorical question. Although these two devices, metaphor and rhetorical question have been traditionally treated as figures of speech, we re-refocused on them...
Katika makala hii tunajadili jinsi simu tamba inavyotumika kama nyenzo katika uandishi, ukuzaji n... more Katika makala hii tunajadili jinsi simu tamba inavyotumika kama nyenzo katika uandishi, ukuzaji na usambazaji wa ushairi miongoni mwa Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na hatimaye watu wengine kote ulimwenguni. Ili kutimiza malengo haya tumetumia dhana ya utandawazi kama dhana changanuzi na vilevile Nadharia ya Kisosholojia ya Kiuhakiki lli kuchambua masuala ya kimaudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba. Data ya utafiti huu imekusanywa kutokana na kutangamana na jumuiya ya Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya kupitia simu tamba. Mmoja wa waandishi wa kazi hii pia ni Mswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na mshiriki katika mitagusano hii ya ushairi wa simu tamba. Katika kazi hii tumeangazia maudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba miongoni mwa Waswahili wa Pwani ya Kenya na vilevile kuonesha baadhi ya mitindo inayopendelewa katika ushairi huu. Imebainika kuwa maudhui ya ushairi wa simu tamba katika eneo la Pwani ya Kenya yanahusu salamu za kutakiana heri siku ya Ijumaa na wakati wa mfungo wa Ramadhani. Masuala mengine ya kij...
This paper is about impoliteness in modern taarab music. It focuses mainly on impoliteness strate... more This paper is about impoliteness in modern taarab music. It focuses mainly on impoliteness strategies occasionally used by some artists of selected modern taarab music on the island of Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania; where politeness is culturally embedded. Although taarab music is composed, played and performed across the East African coast, we selected taarab from Zanzibar island and mainland Tanzania for this study because these regions are arguably the hub of modern styles, innovations, presentations, performances and singing of taarab music. Data for this study were obtained from YouTube where some lyrics from modern taarab were purposively selected for analysis. We selected a sample of eight taarab songs that we thought were representative in answering the question of impoliteness in taarab music. The data were qualitatively analysed using Culpeper’s (1996) impoliteness model. It was found that modern taarab music is a highly dialogic and interactive sub-genre which is sensati...
International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics
This study demonstrates that self-interpretation does indeed occur in Kenyan courtroom proceeding... more This study demonstrates that self-interpretation does indeed occur in Kenyan courtroom proceedings, a situation that necessitates the use of a language other than the regular and official languages of Kenyan courts. Such language use rendered mostly in terms of self-interpretation has far-reaching ramifications on the content, facts, style, and meaning predispositions of a witness's testimony. Most studies in courtroom communicative interactions, language, and speech manifestations, have been largely and dominantly sociolinguistic in approach and there is so much that has been asserted in that dimension. However, this study's point of departure is that it seeks to adopt a Translation Studies approach to analyze self-interpreted presentations made by four witnesses in selected criminal cases at Kisii Law Courts in Kenya. Their self-interpreted testimonies which constitute the data used in this discussion were collected between October 2020 and June 2021. The testimonies rende...
This study attempted an understanding of political language in Kenya. It specifically focused on ... more This study attempted an understanding of political language in Kenya. It specifically focused on the problems of cohesion, coherence and pragmatic meaning in selected texts of Swahili political speeches. To handle these disparate problems of Swahili discourse , we used the eclectic approach that comprised of Cohesion approach by Halliday and Hasan (1976), Topic Framework approach by Brown and Yule (1983) and the Implicature approach by Paul Grice (1975). This thesis is organised into six chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It treats introductory elements of this study i.e. introduction, statement of the problem, aims, rationale of the study, hypotheses, scope, literature review and finally methodology. The second chapter which deals with pragmatic meaning focuses on two rhetorical devices i.e. metaphor and rhetorical question. Although these two devices, metaphor and rhetorical question have been traditionally treated as figures of speech, we re-refocused on them...
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