Frederick Kang’ethe-Iraki

List of John Benjamins publications for which Frederick Kang’ethe-Iraki plays a role.

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Kang’ethe-Iraki, Frederick 2004 Cognitive efficiency: The Sheng phenomenon in Kenya Pragmatics 14:1, pp. 55–68 | Article
Sheng is a variety of Kiswahili that is spoken by young persons, especially from the economically challenged neighbourhoods of Nairobi. The emergence and pervasiveness of the idiom can be explained by cognitive as well as social parameters. Confronted with several languages in Nairobi, a young… read more