Makala haya yanakariri hoja kwamba ushairi wa Wagunduzi ni ushairi wa Wanajadi. Mapitiyo yetu ya maandishi yanayozungumziya ushairi wa Kiswahili yameonesha kwamba kuna makundi mawili: Wanajadi, akiwamo Sheikh Nabhany, ...

Lugha ya kimaharajani iliangaziwa mwanzo na Mikhail Bakhtin, mwanaisimu wa Kirusi na mwitifaki mkuu wa Usemezano. Lugha hii ina sifa za kuweka kanro kaida za usemaji wa kirasmi na kuwacha wananchi watangamane bila vizuizi ...

Usufi ni njia mojawapo ya kumuabudu Mungu katika dini ya Kiislamu. Kuna tariqa kadhaa za kisufi katika Afrika Mashariki na zote zina lengo moja kuu la kumpwekesha Mungu. Nyingi ya tendi za kale za Kiswahili, haswa za ...

Tasfida ni matumizi ya lugha kwa ustadi unaopunguza makali ya maneno yanayotumiwa. Ikiwa maneno au misemo hiyo ina dalili za kutusi, kukirihi au kuweka maneno mwiko hadharani basi hutumiwa lugha inayoficha sifa hizi ...

Conceptual metaphors had for a long time remained unnoticed until the advent of the famous study by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), “Metaphors We Live By”. Love is an emotional experience that elicits a lot of source domains ...

Conceptual metaphors pervade everyday conversations but are used unconsciously. A sample of metaphorical expressions used to express the abstract entity death was collected from two local dailies that is, The Daily ...

Music, a vehicle through which communication takes place, reaches a wider audience as compared to other channels of oral communication. The artist, who is the conveyer of the message, may employ various devices to ensure ...

Love is an eternal topic that continues to elicit emotive reactions throughout the ages. It can be conceptualized as an expression of peace and war. Love metaphors allow us to comprehend love in terms of more clearly ...

The advent of COVID-19 towards the end of the year 2019 led to radical paradigm shifts in public health management strategies across the world. This at a time when the HIV and AIDS pandemic has been in existence for ...

This paper examined containment metaphors in the target domains of happiness, sadness and anger in Dholuo. It further sought to examine the conceptual metaphors that can be derived from the general source domain of ...