This programme strives to develop academic excellence in Linguistics by training learners who can contribute effectively to intellectual, academic and social developments in academia both locally and globally on the core concepts in General Linguistics.
M.A in Theoretical Linguistics offers postgraduate students an opportunity to spearhead research into linguistic phenomena manifested in language typology.
This programme offers an interdisciplinary solution to language problems. This multidisciplinary subfield of linguistics exposes learners to language related problems within the fields of language learning and acquisition, foreign language learning, error analysis, language policy, classroom instruction and forensic linguistics.
The philosophy of this programme is enshrined in the Department of Linguistics mission which strives to develop academic excellence in language and linguistics and train learners who can effectively to intellectual, academic and social developments both in the University, and Globally on matters on language and linguistics, with communication being one of the core functions of any human communicative system.
Magonya, Lilian (2019) Sexisms of the Jiko (cooking stove), food and sexuality: The fuzzy conceptual boundary.
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2018; Odhacha P, Magak K, Muhoma C. A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity. International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology ISSN; VOL. 5NO. 2
“And Who Cleft the Devil’s Foot” and “An Orphan Too Early” in Okoth Iddah,An Anthology of East African Short Stories and Poems,New Press,London,2015.
‘Lone Summits”,”Epitaph”,”For Tom” and “Brittle Ecstasy” in Echoes Across the Valley ed Luvai and Kwamchetsi,E.A.E.P,Nbi,2000.
“The Mission of the Church in Debt”, in Journal of Third World Studies, Vol x no 2, Fall, 1993.
“Narrative Mode and Significance in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, in A Tribute to Margaret Laurence, ed Kiiru, African Research Centre, Nbi, 1992.
Kilonzo S, Magak K,and Omwalo Bryson: “The Influence of Information Technology on the socio-political song in Kenya”.Cr
Nyambane, F., Magak, K & Bwonya, J. (2019, June). “Construction of Feminine Ideology in Gusii Oral Poetry”.