HYPONYMY IN GĨKŨYŨ CHURCH SERMONS IN NYERI COUNTY, KENYA
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | HYPONYMY IN GĨKŨYŨ CHURCH SERMONS IN NYERI COUNTY, KENYA |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Catherine Nyambura Gitonga; Department of Languages, Karatina University, P.O. Box 1957-10101, Karatina, Kenya |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Moses Gatambuki Gathigia; Department of Languages, Karatina University, P.O. Box 1957-10101, Karatina, Kenya |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Naom Nyarigoti; Department of Languages, Karatina University, P.O. Box 1957-10101, Karatina, Kenya |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | hyponymy, hyponym, hypernym, Gĩkũyũ, church sermons |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | Hyponymy is a fundamental semantic relation which highlights the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym). In order to understand hyponymy, the inclusion relation between a hypernym and hyponymy within a lexical field must be interpreted. This study, therefore, looks at hyponymy in Gĩkũyũ church sermons with a view of interpreting the nexus between hypernym and hyponyms. The study also looks at the influence of gender on hyponyms used in Gĩkũyũ church sermons. The study is anchored in the Semantics Field Theory (SFT). The Semantics Field Theory is a study of word meanings that stresses the way meanings are related in a particular area of the lexis. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. Data was collected through tape recording of eight live sermons delivered in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) in Nyeri County, Kenya. Content analysis was used to describe hyponymy in Gĩkũyũ church sermons. The hyponyms used in Gĩkũyũ church sermons were classified into four broad semantic fields of animals, human beings, religion and objects. The study also found that there are super-ordinate terms, sub-ordinate terms and sets of co-hyponyms manifested in the Gĩkũyũ church sermons. The study also noted that hyponymy sense relation is used more by women than men in Gīkũyũ church sermons. The study concludes that hyponymy is employed in Gĩkũyũ church sermons in order to create relationships between hyponyms and super-ordinate terms. The study recommends the use of hyponymy in Gĩkũyũ church sermons as well as in other domains like songs and prayers. The findings of this study will be of importance to lexical semanticists and other scholars in linguistics as they will highlight the nexus between hypernyms and hyponyms.
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| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Open Access Publishing Group |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2018-04-13 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://oapub.org/lit/index.php/EJLLL/article/view/30 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies; Vol 2, No 2 (2018) |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
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Copyright (c) 2018 Catherine Nyambura Gitonga, Moses Gatambuki Gathigia, Noam Moraa Nyarigoti This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The research works published in this journal are free to be accessed. They can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and\or adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, commercially and\or not commercially) under the following terms: attribution (appropriate credit must be given indicating original authors, research work name and publication name mentioning if changes were made) and without adding additional restrictions (without restricting others from doing anything the actual license permits). Authors retain the full copyright of their published research works and cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are followed. |