Kenneth Odhiambo
Biographic Data
| ID | 9110491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Odhiambo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Odhiambo |
| SIGNATURE | ODHIAMBO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maasai Mara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8449-6282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Analysis of Representative Speech Acts in Selected Subordinate Courts of Law in Kenya
The court serves as a tool for enforcing the law and delivering justice to the populace. In Kenya, subordinate courts play a crucial role in the administration of justice, handling a wide range of cases that affect the lives of citizens. Speech acts encompass a diverse range of communicative functions, including assertions, requests, promises, and declarations, each of which holds unique significance within the legal framework. Hence, this paper …
An Analysis of the Observance of the Cooperative Principle Maxims in Selected Kenyan Courts of Law
In legal settings, such as courts of law, the observance of the Cooperative Principle (CP) is particularly crucial. Maxim observance, according to the cooperative principle developed by philosopher H. P. Grice, is a concept in the field of pragmatics and linguistics that explains how people engage in effective communication by following certain conversational norms and expectations. Paul Grice proposed the cooperative principle, which is divided …
Non-Equivalence at the Grammatical Categories in the Kĩkamba Bible Translation
This paper explores the challenges of non-equivalence at the grammatical categories in the Kĩkamba Bible translation. Translation involves rendering a source text message into the target text by using the register, background knowledge, and other language resources to meet the intended purpose. The process is hampered by non-equivalence, which occurs when a lexical item or an expression in the source language lacks an equivalent item to translate…
Discourse Analysis of Selected Kenyan Leader’s Utterances During Covid-19 Media Briefings
When Corona virus was discovered in Wuhan China, many countries, Kenya included, did not have a lot of information about the virus. Despite that, the citizens were looking up to the government together with other leaders to provide information about the virus. In Kenya, after sometime, leaders started issuing statements about the virus with an intention of providing public education to help contain the virus. Some of these were government officer…
Interactive Multimodal Metadiscourse in Covid 19 Campaign Posters by Ministry of Health, Kenya
The purpose of this study is to examine the interactive multimodal metadiscourse features of campaign posters developed exclusively by Kenya's Ministry of Health (MoH) or collaboratively with religious groups and development partners. The objectives of the study were to establish the generic structure, categories, frequencies and functions of interactive textual metadiscourse and visual resources. Using a mixed research design employing qualitati…
Survey of knowledge, behaviour and attitudes relating to HIV infection and Aids among kenyan secondary school students
To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviour with respect to HIV and AIDS among Kenyan secondary school students, a questionnaire was issued to 3,018 students of mean age 16.3 years in 11 Kenyan schools. Questions of knowledge were answered correctly by an average of 77.1% of students. Areas where students' knowledge was less complete included the inability of mosquitoes to transmit the virus, the protective effect of condoms, the la…
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Survey of knowledge, behaviour and attitudes relating to HIV infection and Aids among kenyan secondary school students
To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviour with respect to HIV and AIDS among Kenyan secondary school students, a questionnaire was issued to 3,018 students of mean age 16.3 years in 11 Kenyan schools. Questions of knowledge were answered correctly by an average of 77.1% of students. Areas where students' knowledge was less complete included the inability of mosquitoes to transmit the virus, the protective effect of condoms, the la…
Discourse Analysis of Selected Kenyan Leader’s Utterances During Covid-19 Media Briefings
When Corona virus was discovered in Wuhan China, many countries, Kenya included, did not have a lot of information about the virus. Despite that, the citizens were looking up to the government together with other leaders to provide information about the virus. In Kenya, after sometime, leaders started issuing statements about the virus with an intention of providing public education to help contain the virus. Some of these were government officer…
Interactive Multimodal Metadiscourse in Covid 19 Campaign Posters by Ministry of Health, Kenya
The purpose of this study is to examine the interactive multimodal metadiscourse features of campaign posters developed exclusively by Kenya's Ministry of Health (MoH) or collaboratively with religious groups and development partners. The objectives of the study were to establish the generic structure, categories, frequencies and functions of interactive textual metadiscourse and visual resources. Using a mixed research design employing qualitati…
Non-Equivalence at the Grammatical Categories in the Kĩkamba Bible Translation
This paper explores the challenges of non-equivalence at the grammatical categories in the Kĩkamba Bible translation. Translation involves rendering a source text message into the target text by using the register, background knowledge, and other language resources to meet the intended purpose. The process is hampered by non-equivalence, which occurs when a lexical item or an expression in the source language lacks an equivalent item to translate…
An Analysis of Representative Speech Acts in Selected Subordinate Courts of Law in Kenya
The court serves as a tool for enforcing the law and delivering justice to the populace. In Kenya, subordinate courts play a crucial role in the administration of justice, handling a wide range of cases that affect the lives of citizens. Speech acts encompass a diverse range of communicative functions, including assertions, requests, promises, and declarations, each of which holds unique significance within the legal framework. Hence, this paper …
An Analysis of the Observance of the Cooperative Principle Maxims in Selected Kenyan Courts of Law
In legal settings, such as courts of law, the observance of the Cooperative Principle (CP) is particularly crucial. Maxim observance, according to the cooperative principle developed by philosopher H. P. Grice, is a concept in the field of pragmatics and linguistics that explains how people engage in effective communication by following certain conversational norms and expectations. Paul Grice proposed the cooperative principle, which is divided …
Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Kenya (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Population (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work)