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Prof. Kanana Fridah Erastus

Professor, Department of Literature & Linguistics

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Prof. Kanana Fridah Erastus

Professor, Department of Literature & Linguistics

Academic Qualifications

Kanana, F. E. (2010). Lexico-phonological Comparative Analysis of Selected Dialects of The Meru – Tharaka Group .

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Gibson, H., Githiora, C., Kanana Erastus , F. & Marten, L. (2024). Morphosyntactic Retention and Innovation in Sheng or Youth Language of Kenya. Studies in Language , John Benjamins publishing
  2. Kanana, F.K., & Kinyua, A.H.G. (2023a). Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous language, Media Performance and Change in Kenya. African Studies Review , pp. 1 – 24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.170
  3. Erastus, F.K., Orwenjo, D.O & Gathigia, M.N. (2022). Escaping the Margins of Society: New Media and Youth Language Practices across the Rural-Urban Divide in Kenya. Multilingual Margins : A Journal of Multilingualism from the Periphery , 9(1), 83-100. ISSN 2663-4848
  4. Orwenjo, D.O., & Erastus, F.K. (2021). Teachers’ Perceptions of Open Education Resources: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) in Kenya. Journal of Learning for Development- JL4D , 8 (3), 582-600. ISSN: 2311-1550.
  5. Hurst-Harosh, E. & Kanana, F.E. (2020a) Metaphors and their link to generation/age and popular culture in African Youth Languages. Linguistics Vanguard, 6(s4): 20190053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0053
  6. Kanana, F.E. & Hurst-Harosh, E. (2020b) Global and Local Hybridity in African Youth Language Practices. Africa Development, Volume XLV (3), 13-32. ISSN: 0850 3907. http://codesria.org/spip.php?article3135&lang=en
  7. Ntalala S.G., Orwenjo D.O. & Erastus, F.K. (2020). Rhetorical Moves of Kenyan Parliamentary Committee Reports . Applied Linguistics Research Journal, 4 (3), 65-85. E-ISSN: 2651-2629. DOI: 14744/alrj.2020.29591
  8. Kanana, F.E. and Nyong’a, A.C. (2019). Lexical restructuring processes in Sheng among the Matatu crew in Nakuru, Kenya. South African Journal of Languages and Linguistics, (SAJAL) 39(1), 42-55. ISSN: 0257-2117 Print, 2305-1159 Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2019.1572321
  9. Orwenjo, D.O., & Erastus, F.K. (2018). Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) in Kenyan Secondary School: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT). Journal of Learning for Development, 5(2), 148-162. ISSN: 2311 – 1550.
  10. Kariuki, A., Kanana, E.F. and Kebeya H. (2015). The Growth and Use of Sheng in Advertisements in selected Businesses in Kenya. Journal of African Cultural Studies (JACS), 27(2), 229-246. ISSN Print: 1369-6815; ISSN Online: 1469 - 9346) https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1029879
  11. Kanana, E.F. (2014). Noun Morphophonemics and Noun Class Restructuring: The Case of Meru Gender 11/10. South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL), 34(1), 107-117. ISSN: 0257-2117. DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2014.949474
  12. Kanana, F. E. (2013). Examining African Languages as Tools for National Development: The Case of Kiswahili. Journal of Pan African Studies, 6 (6), 41-48. ISSN: 2156-5600.
  13. Kanana, F. E. (2011). Meru Dialects: The Linguistic Evidence. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 20(4), 300-327. ISSN 1459-9465
  14. Hurst- Harosh, E. & Kanana Erastus, F. (Eds.) (2018). African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development . Palgrave Macmillan: UK. ISBN 978-3-319-64561-2 (Hard Cover), ISBN 978-3-319-64562-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9
  15. Kanana, F.E. (2014). Lexico-Phonological Comparative Analysis of Selected Dialects of the Meru-Tharaka group . Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, edited by Rainer Vossen, ISSN 1436-1183,ISBN 978-3-631-60376-5 (Hardback), E-ISBN 978-3-653-05161-2 (E-Book), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05161-2
  16. Kanana F.E. & Ayieko, G. (2020) Introduction to phonetics and Phonology (Undergraduate Copyright Kenyatta University) copyright, Kenyatta University
  17. Kanana, F.E. , Ayieko, G. & Gimode, K. (2020) Linguistic Field Methods. (Masters, Copyright Kenyatta University)

Books

Hurst- Harosh, E. & Kanana Erastus, F. (Eds.) (2018). African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development . Palgrave Macmillan: UK. ISBN 978-3-319-64561-2 (Hard Cover), ISBN 978-3-319-64562-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9
Kanana, F.E. (2014). Lexico-Phonological Comparative Analysis of Selected Dialects of the Meru-Tharaka group . Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, edited by Rainer Vossen, ISSN 1436-1183,ISBN 978-3-631-60376-5 (Hardback), E-ISBN 978-3-653-05161-2 (E-Book), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05161-2

Book Chapters

  1. Hurst-Harosh, E. & Erastus, F.K . (forthcoming). Pastiche: A conversation between Kenyan Sheng and South African Tsotsitaal youth language speakers. In Storch A.; Faraclas, N. & Velupillai, V. (eds.), Hospitable Linguistics. UK: Bloomsbury Publishers.
  2. Kanana, F.E. (forthcoming) Bantu Languages in the Media. In Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nancy C. Kula, Lutz Marten & Jochen Zeller (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  3. Kanana Erastus, F., Orwenjo, D.O. & Gathigia, M. N. (2024). Breaking Barriers: The Recontenxtualisation of Sheng in Kenya. In Bente A. Svendsen & Rikard Jonsson (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-and-Youth-Culture/Svendsen-Jonsson/p/book/9780367764142
  4. Hurst-Harosh, E. & Kanana Erastus , F. (2023b). Clever or Smarter? Style and Indexicality in Gendered Constructions of Male and Female Youth Identities in Kenya and South Africa. In Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (ed.), Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses . Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag. Pp 79-96. ISBN-13:978-3-8382-1724-6
  5. Rudd, P. & Kanana Erastus, F. (2023c). Hustling Vibaya: Femininities and the Modern Kenya Woman. In Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (ed.), Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses . Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag. Pp 189- 213. ISBN-13:978-3-8382-1724-6
  6. Kanana Erastus , F & Hurst-Harosh, E. (2019). Rural and Urban Metaphors in Sheng (Kenya) and Tsotsitaal (South Africa). In Joseph Schmied. & Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (eds.). African Urban Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide (REAL Studies 11). Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag. Pp 35-51. ISBN 978-3-7369-7081-6, eISBN 978-3-7369-6081-7
  7. Kanana, F.E (2019). Urban and Youth Languages in an Evolving Space: The Case of Sheng in Kenya. In Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé & Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue (eds.). Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings . Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group (RPCIG). Pp 233 -260. ISBN 9789956551378 https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/linguistic-and-sociolinguistic-perspectives-of-youth-language-practices-in-africa-codes-and-identity-writings
  8. Hurst- Harosh & Kanana Erastus, F . (2018). An Overview of African Youth Language Practices and their Use in Social Media, Advertising and Creative Arts. In Ellen Hurst-Harosh & Fridah Kanana Erastus (eds.). African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Developmen t. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Pp 1-12.ISBN 978-3-319-64561-2, eISBN 978-3-319-64561-2, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9
  9. Kanana Erastus , F. & Kebeya, H. (2018). Functions of Urban and Youth Language in the New Media: The Case of Sheng in Kenya. In Ellen Hurst-Harosh & Fridah Kanana Erastus (eds.). African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development . Palgrave Macmillan: UK. Pp 15-52. ISBN 978-3-319-64561-2), eISBN 978-3-319-64561-2, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64562-9
  10. Kebeya, H. O. & Kanana E.F. (2016). Devolution of Governance and Linguistic (in) equalities in Kenya. In Martin Pütz & Neele Mundt (eds.). Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives ( Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture Volume 114) Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main. Pp51-69. ISBN 978-3-631-67049-1, eISBN 978-3-653-06261-8, https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06261-8 .
  11. Kanana, F.E. (2014). The growth of English as a status language in Africa: Insights from Kenya. In Daniel O. Orwenjo, Martin C. Njoroge, Ruth W. Ndung’u & Phyllis W. Mwangi (eds) Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of The State of The Art, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK ISBN (10): 1-4438-6222-3, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-6222-6.

Conference Papers

  1. Cunha, C., Kanana, F. & Harrington, J. (Submitted). Variation and Palatalisation in the Production of the Plural Prefix in Meru: A Study of Three Dialects. Paper submitted at the 20th International Congress of Speech Sciences (ICPhS).
  2. Cunha, C., Kanana, F. & Harrington, J. (Submitted). Variation and Palatalisation in the Production of the Plural Prefix in Meru: A Study of Three Dialects. Paper submitted at the 20 th International Congress of Speech Sciences (ICPhS).
  3. Kanana, F. E. (2011). Dialect Convergence and Divergence: A Case of Chuka and Imenti. Selected Proceedings of the 40 th Annual Conference on African Linguistics , ed. Eyamba G. Bokamba et al., 190-205. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (ISBN 978-1-57473—446-1
  4. Ogutu, E. A. & Kanana, F.E. (2003). Code Switching in Multilingual Situations: Opposing Views. Selected Proceedings of Association of Third World Studies – Kenya Chapter Conference, Vol. 1, eds. Clara Momanyi et. al., 27-32. Nairobi: Oakland media Services Ltd.