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Associate Professor /Founding Chair of Department – Humanities
Email:catieno@chuka.ac.ke
Department of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION
Phonetics and Phonology, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Text Linguistics
COMMUNITY BASED ACTIVITIES
Co-founded Chuka Youth Information Centre (CYIC)
Member of the English Service, PCEA, Jerusha Kanyua Memorial Church (JKMC)
Member of Wasafiri Women Group
Vice-Chairperson, Chuka University Staff Welfare
2007: Deputy Presiding Officer with the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK)
2016: BOM, Chairperson, Ndagani Primary School
2015 To Date: BOM, Executive Member, Chogoria Boys High School
2019 To Date: Parents Association Member, Chogoria Girls High School
2019 To Date: BOM, Member, Chogoria Girls High School
WORK EXPERIENCE
DECEMBER 2024 to date: Associate professor
SEPTEMBER 2017 TO JANUARY 2025: Chair of the Department of Humanities,
JUNE, 2021: Senior Lecturer
JUNE, 2016: Lecturer
NOVEMBER, 2012: Assistant Lecturer
2012: High School Teacher
2017 to date: Peer Reviewer Journal of Environmental Sustainability Advancement Research (JESAR)
2018: Member, Chuka University, Board of Research, Extension and Publications
2020: Member, Chuka University Faculty of Education, Teaching Practice Assessment Team
EDUCATION
PhD in Linguistics, Chuka University
Masters of Arts- English, Egerton University
BED – Arts (English/ Literature), Kenyatta University
PROFESSIONAL BODIES MEMBERSHIP
Member of African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA)
Member of Language Association of Eastern Africa (LAEA)
KEY RESEARCH PROJECTS
2016: The Use of Language to Perpetuate Socio- Political Dominance in Kenyan Parliamentary Debates
2010: Textuality in English Composition Writing by Form Two E.S.L. Students in Meru South, Kenya
SCHOLALRLY PUBLICATIONS
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Written and spoken text linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Phonetics and Phonology.
POSTGRADUATE TOPICS SUPERVISED
PhD
1. A Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Kenya Supreme Court Judgement on Election Petitions and Civil Cases.
2. Persuasion in Kenya’s Ministry of Health COVID – 19 Updates: a Pragmatic Analysis
3. Kenyans on Twitter as an Imagined Community of Language Users
4. Textual Analysis of Institutional Communication During Labour Conflicts
5. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Multilingualism and Dialect Variation on the Meru Language
MA
1. A Pragmatic Analysis of Business Names in Chogoria Town
2. Linguistic Notions and Expressions Used to Devalue Women in Kimwimbi(
3. Effectiveness of Corporate Communication as a Management Tool in Public Universities in Kenya
4. Effects of Tone on Meaning in Gi-Tigania, a Bantu Language Spoken in Meru County
5. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kenya’s Building Bridges Initiative Speeches.
6. Social Media and Political Communication: A Case Study of Facebook Usage among Members of County Assembly of Meru, Kenya
7. Agenda Setting Role of Citizen Journalism Platforms in Kenya
8. Cohesion in Written Texts by Primary School Pupils in Buuri West in Meru, Kenya
9. Description of Morphological features of Kithabooro Argot Spoken by Miraa Harvesters in Laare Town, Meru County
10. A Discourse of Secondary School Prefects using English as a Second Language
11. Semantic Analysis of Kiigembe Neologism
12. A Pragma-Semiotic Analysis of Always Sanitary Pads Advertisements.
13. Presuppositions in CS Mutahi Kagwe’s Speeches on COVID- 19 Situation in Kenya
14. A Forensic Study of Language Used in Rape and Defilement Cases in Meru Law Courts
15. Implicature in Trevor Noah’s Stand – up Comedy
16. Analysis of the Linguistic Style Used in Kiimenti Dowry Negotiation Discourse