Logic is a branch of philosophy which is essentially a study of the art and science of correct reasoning (Baronett, 2008). There is interplay between logics and linguistics which is evident in Logical-Semantics which ...

Katika ṭaaluma ya fasihi ya kiSwahili uṭeṇḍi maarufu uliyoṭafiṭiwa mno kuhusu masiyala ya nrowa, kazi na majukumu ya mke k̇ a mumewe, ni ule wa Ṁanakupona. K̇ a mara ya k̇ anza, makala haya yanaangaziya uṭeṇḍi ṁengine ...

In his 1979 exhortation titled On Governmentality, Michel Foucault asserts that everything is political. Deuber-Mankowsky (2008) slightly shifts from Foucault’s position by stating that although nothing is political, ...

Makala haya yalichunguza jinsi wasanii wa vitabu vya fasihi ya watoto wamefuma tashbihikatika kazi zao ili kueleza maudhui yanayowalenga watoto kwa kuongozwa na nadharia ya umuundo iliyoasisiwa na Ferdinand ...

Makala haya yanakariri hoja kwamba ushairi wa Wagunduzi ni ushairi wa Wanajadi. Mapitiyo yetu ya maandishi yanayozungumziya ushairi wa Kiswahili yameonesha kwamba kuna makundi mawili: Wanajadi, akiwamo Sheikh Nabhany, ...

Lugha ya kimaharajani iliangaziwa mwanzo na Mikhail Bakhtin, mwanaisimu wa Kirusi na mwitifaki mkuu wa Usemezano. Lugha hii ina sifa za kuweka kanro kaida za usemaji wa kirasmi na kuwacha wananchi watangamane bila vizuizi ...

Usufi ni njia mojawapo ya kumuabudu Mungu katika dini ya Kiislamu. Kuna tariqa kadhaa za kisufi katika Afrika Mashariki na zote zina lengo moja kuu la kumpwekesha Mungu. Nyingi ya tendi za kale za Kiswahili, haswa za ...

Tasfida ni matumizi ya lugha kwa ustadi unaopunguza makali ya maneno yanayotumiwa. Ikiwa maneno au misemo hiyo ina dalili za kutusi, kukirihi au kuweka maneno mwiko hadharani basi hutumiwa lugha inayoficha sifa hizi ...

Conceptual metaphors had for a long time remained unnoticed until the advent of the famous study by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), “Metaphors We Live By”. Love is an emotional experience that elicits a lot of source domains ...