Browsing School of Arts and Social Sciences by Author "Nyakoe, Damaris Gechemba"

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    • Discourse of Traditional Medicine Street Advertisement in Kisumu, Kenya 

      Yakub, Adams; Nyakoe, Damaris Gechemba; Okal, Benard Odoyo (Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017-07)
      Information is a very important concept during an interaction between interlocutors within a particular health communicative context. In matters concerning individuals' health and other emotive issues, subjective information ...

    • Mental Representation and Interpretation of HIV as A Death Sentence in Ekegusii HIV and AIDS Metaphor 

      Nyakoe, Damaris Gechemba (East African Scholars Journal of Education, Humanities and Literature, 2019-02)
      HIV is one of the challenges confronting the human race and Kenyans are not an exception to this fact. EkeGusii is a Bantu language spoken by approximately two million speakers in Western Kenya. HIV is both a medical and ...

    • Metaphor and Health Communication: Use of Metaphor in HIV and AIDS Discourse 

      Nyakoe, Damaris Gechemba (Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2024-01-12)
      Language plays a fundamental role in combatting HIV and AIDS. In Kenya, English and Kiswahili are used as the languages of communication in HIV and AIDS related issues. The literacy rate in Kenya stands at 87.4% but ...