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Publication details [#59065]

Ondimu, Jacquiline. 2014. A socio-cultural understanding of death: A genre analysis of obituaries in a Kenyan newspaper. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 45 (1) : 3–22.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This analysis of schematic structure and language use in Kenyan Daily Nation obituaries unveils six compulsory structural moves in this structurally distinct genre, and a big impact of societal and cultural views and values on language usage.