Chrispina Alphonce
Biographic Data
| ID | 6792907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chrispina Alphonce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chrispina |
| FAMILY NAME | Alphonce |
| SIGNATURE | ALPHONCE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Dodoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0907-7314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The role of address terms in Iraqw verbal greetings
This study investigates the functions of address terms in Iraqw verbal greetings. To achieve this objective, verbal greetings were collected from research participants who are native speakers of the Iraqw language residing in Getaghul and Bondeni villages, in the Manyara Region, Tanzania. The participants were rural farmers, some of whom also engaged in small-scale livestock keeping. The patterns of greetings were recorded using a voice recorder.…
Perceptions of Aboriginal Names among the Meru People of Tanzania
Analysis of the current status of Iraqw kinship terms to foresee their future trends
This study analyses the status of Iraqw kinship terms and provides their future implications. The study offers insights into the resilience of Iraqw indigenous kinship terms and the penetration of new kinship terms from Kiswahili, a dominant language in Tanzania. Data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire from 30 Iraqw research participants. Brief follow-up interviews were also conducted with participants who reported using Swahili k…
Lexical borrowing
This paper investigates the influence of loanwords on the semantics of Kihehe as spoken in Iringa in the southern highlands of Tanzania. It provides evidence from 1,152 loanwords collected through spoken texts and focus group discussion in two villages of Nzihi and Ifunda wards, namely Mibikimitali and Kalenga in Iringa District where the central dialect of Kihehe is mainly spoken. The collection and analysis of the data were guided by the Cognit…
Lexical change
The article reports the results on the lexical change in Hehe, grounded in substratum theory. This exploration focused on the extent of lexical change. The qualitative data were collected in Kilolo District through reversetranslation and documentary-review methods. Forty-eight purposively selected informants were asked to interpret 120 lists of words and 10 phrases written in both English and Kiswahili. The qualitative analysis of the data, using…
The Language of the Public Spaces in Tanzanian Universities during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The language of public space in Tanzania is increasingly reported to be dominated by English in the bottom-up signage for maintaining the higher status quo. At the same time, the utility of Kiswahili predominates for the top-down signposts that aim to pass information to the public quickly. While the literature shows the utility of Kiswahili is skewed towards the communication intended message, the COVID-19 situation expanded this utility in the …
Toponyms and Identity in Hanang’ District
This article is centred on place identity in Hanang’ District. Informed by the literature about place identity, the study describes the origin and the sociolinguistic meaning of place names following the analysis of 110 names that were collected from different places around Hanang’ District. Snowball sampling was appropriately used to obtain 15 informants for face-to-face interviews. Our analysis revealed that many place names in Hanang’ are pred…
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Toponyms and Identity in Hanang’ District
This article is centred on place identity in Hanang’ District. Informed by the literature about place identity, the study describes the origin and the sociolinguistic meaning of place names following the analysis of 110 names that were collected from different places around Hanang’ District. Snowball sampling was appropriately used to obtain 15 informants for face-to-face interviews. Our analysis revealed that many place names in Hanang’ are pred…
The Language of the Public Spaces in Tanzanian Universities during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The language of public space in Tanzania is increasingly reported to be dominated by English in the bottom-up signage for maintaining the higher status quo. At the same time, the utility of Kiswahili predominates for the top-down signposts that aim to pass information to the public quickly. While the literature shows the utility of Kiswahili is skewed towards the communication intended message, the COVID-19 situation expanded this utility in the …
Lexical borrowing
This paper investigates the influence of loanwords on the semantics of Kihehe as spoken in Iringa in the southern highlands of Tanzania. It provides evidence from 1,152 loanwords collected through spoken texts and focus group discussion in two villages of Nzihi and Ifunda wards, namely Mibikimitali and Kalenga in Iringa District where the central dialect of Kihehe is mainly spoken. The collection and analysis of the data were guided by the Cognit…
Lexical change
The article reports the results on the lexical change in Hehe, grounded in substratum theory. This exploration focused on the extent of lexical change. The qualitative data were collected in Kilolo District through reversetranslation and documentary-review methods. Forty-eight purposively selected informants were asked to interpret 120 lists of words and 10 phrases written in both English and Kiswahili. The qualitative analysis of the data, using…
Analysis of the current status of Iraqw kinship terms to foresee their future trends
This study analyses the status of Iraqw kinship terms and provides their future implications. The study offers insights into the resilience of Iraqw indigenous kinship terms and the penetration of new kinship terms from Kiswahili, a dominant language in Tanzania. Data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire from 30 Iraqw research participants. Brief follow-up interviews were also conducted with participants who reported using Swahili k…
The role of address terms in Iraqw verbal greetings
This study investigates the functions of address terms in Iraqw verbal greetings. To achieve this objective, verbal greetings were collected from research participants who are native speakers of the Iraqw language residing in Getaghul and Bondeni villages, in the Manyara Region, Tanzania. The participants were rural farmers, some of whom also engaged in small-scale livestock keeping. The patterns of greetings were recorded using a voice recorder.…
Perceptions of Aboriginal Names among the Meru People of Tanzania
Linguistics (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Lexical item (2 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works)