Anashia Nancy Ong’onda
Biographic Data
| ID | 10090668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anashia Nancy Ong’onda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anashia Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ong’onda |
| SIGNATURE | ONG’ONDA A N |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1381-9213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Cognitive Analysis of Woman Metaphors in Kikuyu Secular Songs
The purpose of this paper was to analyze conceptual metaphors of women in the Kikuyu Secular Songs using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Metaphors are an essential aspect of human communication and a prominent linguistic feature found in virtually all human languages. However, metaphors are not merely a rhetorical device but a reflection of the working of the human cognitive system depicting different construal and points of view taken by its i…
An analysis of the Syllable Structure of Kikamba Nouns
This paper analyses the syllable within the framework of phonology. The syllable is a central prosodic feature in phonology and phonological processes occur within it. However, languages differ with respect to phonotactic constraints that control their syllable structure. Therefore, this paper considers Kikamba language to have unique principles of syllabification that need to be explored. This paper applies the theory of Generative CV-phonology …
An Analysis of the role of context in meaning and interpretation of Gîkûyû Idioms
This paper analyses the role of context in the meaning and interpretation of Gky idiomatic expressions. The paper is based on the premise that the polylexemic nature of an idiom makes it unamendable to structural manipulation and that meaning is context based. This makes it to constitute a linguistic phenomenon that has proved to be problematic to linguistic theory. This paper applied the relevance theory by Wilson and Sperber (1986/1995). To ach…
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An analysis of the Syllable Structure of Kikamba Nouns
This paper analyses the syllable within the framework of phonology. The syllable is a central prosodic feature in phonology and phonological processes occur within it. However, languages differ with respect to phonotactic constraints that control their syllable structure. Therefore, this paper considers Kikamba language to have unique principles of syllabification that need to be explored. This paper applies the theory of Generative CV-phonology …
An Analysis of the role of context in meaning and interpretation of Gîkûyû Idioms
This paper analyses the role of context in the meaning and interpretation of Gky idiomatic expressions. The paper is based on the premise that the polylexemic nature of an idiom makes it unamendable to structural manipulation and that meaning is context based. This makes it to constitute a linguistic phenomenon that has proved to be problematic to linguistic theory. This paper applied the relevance theory by Wilson and Sperber (1986/1995). To ach…
A Cognitive Analysis of Woman Metaphors in Kikuyu Secular Songs
The purpose of this paper was to analyze conceptual metaphors of women in the Kikuyu Secular Songs using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Metaphors are an essential aspect of human communication and a prominent linguistic feature found in virtually all human languages. However, metaphors are not merely a rhetorical device but a reflection of the working of the human cognitive system depicting different construal and points of view taken by its i…
Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive linguistics (1 work) · Conceptual metaphor (1 work) · Conceptualization (1 work) · English Language Learning and Teaching (1 work)