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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

Keywords

genre | language and culture | language and society | language use | obituary

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.