Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Author "Satia, Emmanuel"
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Language and the construction of a positive identity among inmates in Kenyan jails
Satia, Emmanuel (University of Nairobi, 2010)This paper describes linguistic and stylistic strategies used by a group of inmates in Kenyan jails to construct their identities in a positive way through language. They did so in thirty-four letters which they wrote ... -
Strategies of controlling the linguistic response from cross-examined witnesses: lay defendants as cross examiners in a kenyan resident magistrate’s court
Satia, Emmanuel (University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper analyzes strategies of controlling the linguistic responses of prosecution witnesses that were employed by two accused persons in a grievous-bodily-harm case involving family members at a magistrate’s court in ...