Mungai Mutonya
Biographic Data
| ID | 135364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mungai Mutonya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mungai |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutonya |
| SIGNATURE | MUTONYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | a African and African American Studies Department , Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Knappert, Jan, and Leo van Kessel: Dictionary of Literary Swahili
Anthropos , Seite 682 - 683
African Englishes: Acoustic Analysis of Vowels
This paper focuses on acoustic analysis of African English (AfrE) vowels produced by a controlled sample of speakers from Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Adopting quantitative methods of data sampling and analysis, and holding dialectal factors as homogeneous as possible, this exploratory study subjects Schmied's (1991a) claim - that a major source of regional variation is the 'deviation' in the production of RP central vowel [] (as in bird) - to emp…
Swahili advertising in Nairobi: Innovation and Language Shift
Advertisers are increasingly using urban slang and other non-standard forms of Swahili to reach out to a broader audience in the densely multilingual Nairobi. Influenced by social and linguistic shifts in the city, and keeping pace with trends in other societies, Nairobi advertisers are gradually transforming the advertising discourse as they seek to reach out to newer consumers. Specifically, by incorporating non-standard Swahili into the ads, a…
KiKAR: A Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army
The paper discusses attitudes, identity construction, agents of linguistic change, and the outcome of dense language contact in Kenya's colonial army during the early decades of the twentieth century. The growth and development of a simplified Swahili variety in the Kenyan battalions of the King's African Rifles (KAR) during the inter-war period was influenced by the European officers' attitude towards Africans and their languages, the military's…
Swahili advertising in Nairobi: Innovation and Language Shift
Advertisers are increasingly using urban slang and other non-standard forms of Swahili to reach out to a broader audience in the densely multilingual Nairobi. Influenced by social and linguistic shifts in the city, and keeping pace with trends in other societies, Nairobi advertisers are gradually transforming the advertising discourse as they seek to reach out to newer consumers. Specifically, by incorporating non-standard Swahili into the ads, a…
African Englishes: Acoustic Analysis of Vowels
This paper focuses on acoustic analysis of African English (AfrE) vowels produced by a controlled sample of speakers from Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Adopting quantitative methods of data sampling and analysis, and holding dialectal factors as homogeneous as possible, this exploratory study subjects Schmied's (1991a) claim - that a major source of regional variation is the 'deviation' in the production of RP central vowel [] (as in bird) - to emp…
KiKAR: A Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army
The paper discusses attitudes, identity construction, agents of linguistic change, and the outcome of dense language contact in Kenya's colonial army during the early decades of the twentieth century. The growth and development of a simplified Swahili variety in the Kenyan battalions of the King's African Rifles (KAR) during the inter-war period was influenced by the European officers' attitude towards Africans and their languages, the military's…
KiKAR: A Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army
The paper discusses attitudes, identity construction, agents of linguistic change, and the outcome of dense language contact in Kenya's colonial army during the early decades of the twentieth century. The growth and development of a simplified Swahili variety in the Kenyan battalions of the King's African Rifles (KAR) during the inter-war period was influenced by the European officers' attitude towards Africans and their languages, the military's…
African Englishes: Acoustic Analysis of Vowels
This paper focuses on acoustic analysis of African English (AfrE) vowels produced by a controlled sample of speakers from Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Adopting quantitative methods of data sampling and analysis, and holding dialectal factors as homogeneous as possible, this exploratory study subjects Schmied's (1991a) claim - that a major source of regional variation is the 'deviation' in the production of RP central vowel [] (as in bird) - to emp…
Swahili advertising in Nairobi: Innovation and Language Shift
Advertisers are increasingly using urban slang and other non-standard forms of Swahili to reach out to a broader audience in the densely multilingual Nairobi. Influenced by social and linguistic shifts in the city, and keeping pace with trends in other societies, Nairobi advertisers are gradually transforming the advertising discourse as they seek to reach out to newer consumers. Specifically, by incorporating non-standard Swahili into the ads, a…
Knappert, Jan, and Leo van Kessel: Dictionary of Literary Swahili
Anthropos , Seite 682 - 683
Linguistics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Swahili (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works)