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Discourse of Traditional Medicine Street Advertisement in Kisumu, Kenya
(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
(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
(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 ...