Dr. Norah Bonareri Atambo

Name: Dr.  Norah Bonareri Atambo Title/Qualifications: PhD Department/Unit/Section: Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages Email:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Position: Lecturer Area of Specialization: Applied Linguistics Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language and Politics, Language and Social Media, Language and Communication Download Full CV

Publications

Journal Publications

• Atambo, N., B. & Chai, J., F. (2013), “Walking a Cultural Tightrope: Linguistic Strategies Employed in Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) Programmes in Kenyan Secondary Schools” Ruwaza Afrika , Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (1) 262-276
• Atambo, N., Ogutu, E., & Kiguru, E. (2021). Language, gender and power: Lexicalisation of women in the national assembly and other top political posts in Kenya (2013-2017). Journal of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, 2(1). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/jlfl/article/view/506
• Atambo, N., Ogutu, E., & Kiguru, E. (2022). Language, Gender and Power: The ‘Us’ vs ‘Them’ Dichotomy in Political Campaigns in Kenya (Forthcoming)
• Atambo, N., Ogutu, E., & Kiguru, E. (2022). Language, Gender and Power: Women Politicians in Kenya and the Reconstruction of Political Agency (Forthcoming)

Book Chapters

• Atambo, N., Ogutu, E., & Miriti, G. (2022). Making Sense of, and Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: A Linguistic Perspective.  In Hameed Tunde Asiru and Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo (eds.) (De) constructing corona: the language of conspiracy, power & indifference in Covid-19 health discourses. Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH

RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2017: Kenyatta University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Post Graduate Research Grant
• 2017: PhD Dissertation Fellowship Research Grant by Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Programme
• 2009: Egerton University Post-Graduate Research Grant

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Book Chapter: Making Sense of, and Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: A Linguistic Perspective (Manuscript accepted for publication)
• Researchers: Norah Bonareri Atambo and Emily Atieno Ogutu, Department of Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages Kenyatta University-Kenya, and Gervasio Itiri Miriti Department of English Language and Linguistics Turkana University College-Kenya

CONFERENCES

• Title of Paper: Language and Gendered Political Discourses: How do Women Politicians in Kenya Reconstruct their Political Agency

Presenters:       Norah B. Atambo & Emily A. Ogutu

Conference:     XX ISA World Congress of Sociology

Date:                 June 25^th - July 1^st 2023

• Conference:      International Mother Language Day Celebration

Venue:               Kenyatta University, BBSC Room 14

Date:                 21^st February, 2023

Role:                  Attendee

• Title of Paper: Language, Gender and Power: The ‘Us’ vs ‘Them’ Dichotomy in Political Campaigns in Kenya

Presenters:       Norah B. Atambo, Emily A. Ogutu & Gatitu Kiguru

Conference:      ISA RC25 International Virtual Conference, by Kenyatta University, Kenya

Date:                 15^th to 17^th June 2022            

• Title of Paper: Making Sense of, and Coping With the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: A Linguistic Perspective

Presenters:      Norah B. Atambo & Gervasio I.Miriti

Conference:    Second Conference organized by POCLANDE International Network, at Kenyatta University, Kenya

Date:                27^th - 29^th October, 2021

• Title of Paper:  Lexicalisation of women in the national assembly and other top political posts in Kenya (2013-2017)

Presenters:      Norah B. Atambo, Emily A. Ogutu & Gatitu Kiguru

Conference:     Kisii University School of Arts and Social Sciences 2^nd International Conference

Date:                Oct 5^th-6^th 2021

• Title of paper: An Analysis of the Intertextuality of Social Media Discourse of Chuka University Students on Whatsapp Platforms

Presenters:       Gervasio I. Miriti & Norah B. Atambo

Conference:     1^st Virtual Multidisciplinary Conference by Turkana University College (a constituent college of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology) Kenya

Date:                 Thursday, June 24^th – Friday June 25^th 2021

• Title of Paper: Language, Ideology And Power: Women National Assembly Members As Naϊve Flower Girls Sprinkling their Femininity in the Political Scene

Presenter:        Norah B. Atambo

Conference:     Makerere Institute of Social Sciences (Makerere University) Graduate Students’ Conference

Date:                27^th-30^th July 2018

• Title of paper: Walking a Cultural Tightrope: Linguistic Strategies Used in Formal Adolescent Reproductive Health Programmes in Kenyan Secondary Schools

Presenter:        Norah B. Atambo

Conference:     Fifth Research week and international conference, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

Date:                October, 2010

SEMINAR PAPERS

• Title of paper: Language, Gender and Power: The Discursive Construction of the Kenya National Assembly Politicians (2013 – 2017)

Presenter:        Norah B. Atambo,

Seminar:          Kenyatta University Post-Graduate Seminar

Date:                18^th July 2019

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

• Workshop:  Global Research Ethics Africa Workshop, a project led by Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, in collaboration with UST and Victoria University, among others

Venue:         Virtual

Date:            28^th May 2021          

• Workshop: Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Programme Workshop

Venue:       Nigeria, Lagos.

Date:          July 3^rd - 7^th 2017

• Workshop: Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship programme Workshop

Venue:        Kenya, Nairobi

Date:           January 2018

SEMINAR PAPERS

• Title of paper: Language, Gender and Power: The Discursive Construction of the Kenya National Assembly Politicians (2013 – 2017)
  Presenter:        Norah B. Atambo,
  Seminar:          Kenyatta University Post-Graduate Seminar
  Date:                18^th July 2019

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

• Workshop:  Global Research Ethics Africa Workshop, a project led by Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, in collaboration with UST and Victoria University, among others
  Venue:         Virtual
  Date:            28^th May 2021           
• Workshop: Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Programme Workshop
  Venue:       Nigeria, Lagos.
  Date:          July 3^rd - 7^th 2017
• Workshop: Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship programme Workshop, Venue:  Kenya, Nairobi
  Date:  January 2018