Omondi Oketch
Biographic Data
| ID | 211340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omondi Oketch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omondi |
| FAMILY NAME | Oketch |
| SIGNATURE | OKETCH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maseno University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies
"This book examines the effects of unstable democratic systems of government in modern society, providing an imperative analysis on political communications from such nations and highlighting real-world examples on the constraints seen in malfunctioning or emerging governments"
Localizing HIV/Aids Discourse in a Rural Kenyan Community
This paper examines the effectiveness of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns in rural western Kenya using multimodal discourse analysis (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2004). Twenty HIV/AIDS documents (posters, billboards and brochures) are analysed together with interview data (20 unstructured one-on-one interviews and six focus groups) from the target group to explore the effectiveness of the multimodal texts in engaging …
What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech?’
The paper draws on data from a large study on communication modes between a rural community and development agents in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The initial motivation was the effect of institutionalised discourse on the development agenda. Interest was on development agents as cultivators of development discourse, and the extent to which they can be said to be honest cultural brokers, who mediate between institutionalised discourse of the Western d…
What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech?’
The paper draws on data from a large study on communication modes between a rural community and development agents in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The initial motivation was the effect of institutionalised discourse on the development agenda. Interest was on development agents as cultivators of development discourse, and the extent to which they can be said to be honest cultural brokers, who mediate between institutionalised discourse of the Western d…
Localizing HIV/Aids Discourse in a Rural Kenyan Community
This paper examines the effectiveness of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns in rural western Kenya using multimodal discourse analysis (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2004). Twenty HIV/AIDS documents (posters, billboards and brochures) are analysed together with interview data (20 unstructured one-on-one interviews and six focus groups) from the target group to explore the effectiveness of the multimodal texts in engaging …
What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech?’
The paper draws on data from a large study on communication modes between a rural community and development agents in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The initial motivation was the effect of institutionalised discourse on the development agenda. Interest was on development agents as cultivators of development discourse, and the extent to which they can be said to be honest cultural brokers, who mediate between institutionalised discourse of the Western d…
Localizing HIV/Aids Discourse in a Rural Kenyan Community
This paper examines the effectiveness of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns in rural western Kenya using multimodal discourse analysis (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2004). Twenty HIV/AIDS documents (posters, billboards and brochures) are analysed together with interview data (20 unstructured one-on-one interviews and six focus groups) from the target group to explore the effectiveness of the multimodal texts in engaging …
Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies
"This book examines the effects of unstable democratic systems of government in modern society, providing an imperative analysis on political communications from such nations and highlighting real-world examples on the constraints seen in malfunctioning or emerging governments"
Sociology (3 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Civil discourse (1 works) · Democracy (1 works)