PROF. PETER MAINA MATU
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| EDUCATION | |||
| Qualification | Area of Specialization | Institution | Year |
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| DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHD) | ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS | UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE (SOUTH AFRICA) | 2004 |
| MASTERS OF ARTS (MA) | LINGUISTICS AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES | UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (KENYA) | 1991 |
| BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA) | LINGUISTICS | UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (KENYA) | 1989 |
| WORK EXPERIENCE | ||
| Period | Position | Institution |
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| 2016 - TO PRESENT | PROFESSOR | TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA (KENYA) |
| 2011 - 2015 | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA (KENYA) |
| 2010 - 2011 | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | MASENO UNIVERSITY (KENYA) |
| 2007 - 2010 | SENIOR LECTURER | MASENO UNIVERSITY (KENYA) |
| 1994 - 2007 | LECTURER | MASENO UNIVRSITY (KENYA) |
| 1993 - 1994 | TUTORIAL FELLOW | MASENO UNIVERSITY (KENYA) |
| CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS | ||
| Title | Area | |
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| A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NEWS PAPER REPORTING OF THE RUN UP TO THE 1997 KENYA GENERAL ELECTIONS | PhD IN ENGLISH | |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
| - INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY: A PRESENTATION OF THE IDEOLOGICAL SQUARE AND TRANSITITY IN THE EDITORIALS OF THREE KENYAN NEWS PAPERS. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGES AND POLITICS, 6(3): 401-418. | |
| - TRANSIVITY AS A TOOL FOR IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS JOURNAL OF THIRD WORLD STUDIES, XXV (1): 199-211. | |
| - ESTABILISHING CREDIBILITY IN CORPORATE WEBSITES: A LINGUISTIC APPROACH . OGONE, J &OWRENJO, D.O. (eds). 2008. text language and literature: empirical and theoretical perspectives from kenya saarbrucken:VDM verlag. 134-150. | |
| - lexical representation of political participants: newspaper reporting of the run to the 1997 kenyan general election. journal of intra- african studies,1: 37-53. | |
| - using language right concepts to evaluate the knowledge of court interpreters in kenya. annals of humaninties and development studies, 1(1): 1-9 | |
| - face attack and patient response strategies in a kenyan hospital journal of social linguistics, 14(4): 501-523. | |
| - GROUP IDENTITIES IN KENYAN SMS MASSAGES. ACTA ACADEMICA, 42(3): 86-114 | |
| - KENYA ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION: IMPLICATION OF TEXT MASSAGING ON SOCIAL INTERACTION. US CHINA FOREIGN LANGUAGE (USA), 8(9): 1-13. | |
| - PUNCTUATION AS A SOCIAL LINGUISTIC VARIABLE IN TEXT MESSAGES SINI US ENGLISH TEACHING (USA) 7(9) 42-47 | |
| - PHONOLOGICAL VARIATION IN SHORT MESSAGES SERVICES (SMS) IN KENYA. ANNALS OF HUMANITIES AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 1(2): 101-117. | |
| - NURSES' IMPOLITENESS AS AN IMPENDIMENT TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHARTER OF PATIENTS RIGHTS IN SELECTED PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN KENYA. HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 12(2): 101-117. | |
| - AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL ERRORS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH. ANNALS OF MODERN EDUCATION, 2(1): 1-17 | |
| - AIDS IS CAUSED BY INVISIBLE INSECTS SENT BY SORCERERS: A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE TO THE AIDS- WITCHCRAFT QUESTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. US-CHINA FOREIGN LANGUAGE, (USA),8(12):1-17 | |
| - SYNTATIC ASPECT IN TEXT MESSAGING. TO APPEAR IN WORLD JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SCIEDU PRESS, CANADA. | |
| CURRENT POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION | ||
| Name | Project Title | Period |
|---|---|---|
| WANGATIA, I.R. | A MORPHOSYNTATIC ANALYSIS OF LUWANGA VERB PHRASE. | 2006 |
| OWINO. D.O. | MORPHOSYNTATIC STRUCTURES OF DHOLUE/ ENGLISH CODE SWITCHING: THE MATRIX LANGUAGE FRAME PESPECTIVE. | 2007 |
| OCHIENG,' R.O. | A LINGUISTICS OF ENGLISH/SWAHILI CODESWITCHING IN KISII FM AND EEASY FM RADIO STATIONS. | 2008 |
| YAKUB, A. | A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SAFARICOM ADVERTISEMENTS IN KENYA NEWSPAPERS. | 2008 |
| JORONGO, F. | A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE KENYA COSTITUTION REVIEW REFERUNDUM CAMPAIGN BY TWO KENYAN NEWSPAPERS. | 2008 |
| OCHWAL, A. | A STUDY OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY NON SPECIALISED TEACHERS OF THE HEARING IMPARED LEARNERS | 2008 |
| ISALAMBO, B. | LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET: A STUDY F METADISCOURSE IN CORPORATE WEBSITES ON THE NAIROBI STOCK EXCHAN | 2009 |
| ONG'ONDA, N. | SHORT MESSAGE DISCOURSE: A SOCIALLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO KENYAN TEXT MESSAGES. | 2009 |
| OSORO, E. | THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE LUTSOTSO NOUN PHRASE. | 2009 |
| BUNDE,D. | EXT INTERPRETATION: COHESION AND DEIXIS IN 'BEHIND THE MASK' | 2009 |
| LUVAHA, J. | MSHIKA MONO WA KILEKSIA KATIKA INSHA ZA WANAFUNZI WALIO NA MATATIZO YA KUSIKIA KATIKA SHULE TEULE | 2009 |
| JAGERO, J | MATUMIZI YA KISWAHILI KATIKA TECHNOHAMA KATIKA SHULE ZA SECONDARI ZA WAVULANA ZA CHAKAVALI NA MARAND | 2009 |
| ONYANGO, N.O. | EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE USE: A CASE STUDY OF PRCISION IN THE SHOWDOWN TALK SHOW IN THE PROGRAMME TV, KNY | 2010 |
| ODONGO, R.A. | AN INVESTIGATION OF ERRORS IN THE WRITTEN ENGLISH OF FOAM FOUR STUDENTS IN KISUMU EAST DISTRICT. | 2010 |
| OTIENO, C.G. | AN ANALYSIS OF MOOD AND MODALITY: A CASE OF POWER RELATIONS IN MARJORIE OLUDHE MCGOYE 'COMING TO BIR | 2010 |
| OLOO, P.A. | LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF HIV/AIDS DISCOURSE IN NYANZA KENYA | 2009 |
| OJWANG', B. | A GRAMATIC ANLYSIS OF NURSE-CLIENT INTERACTIONS IN SELECTED PUBLIC HEALTH FCILITIES IN NYANZA DSRCT | 2010 |
| OGONE, J. | AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE EFFORTS ON REVITALIZATION OF THE OLUSUBA LANGUAGE. | 2010 |
| ODHIAMBO, K. | THE LANGUAGE RIGHTS PRACTITIONERS: DHOLUENGLISH INTERPRETERS IN SUBORDINATE COURTS IN NYANZA PROVINC | 2011 |
| MAGONYA,L.A | AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLICISMS USED IN THE FRENCH PRINT MEDIA. A CASE STUDY OF AMINA AND AFRIQUE MAGAZINE | 2006 |
| ABAYA, R.N | AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL ERRORS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH OF STANDARD EIGHT PUPILS IN RIGOMA DVSN OF OF NYAM | 2006 |
| ANY OTHER EXTRA INFORMATION |
| EXECUTIVE DEAN - FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY |
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