Prof. Dr. Fridah Kanana Erastus

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften, Experimentelle Linguistik, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen
Keywordsmorphophonology, Phonetics, Sound change, Language typology, Dialectology

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandKenia
OrtNairobi
Universität/InstitutionKenyatta University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Jonathan HarringtonInstitut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.09.2022

Programm(e)

2021Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für erfahrene Forschende

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2024Kanana Erastus, F., Orwenjo, D.O. & Gathigia, M. N. Breaking Barriers: The Recontenxtualisation of Sheng in Kenya. . In: Bente A. Svendsen & Rikard Jonsson The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture.. Routledge, 2024. 347-361.
2024Gibson, H., Githiora, C., Kanana Erastus, F. & Marten, L. Morphosyntactic Retention and Innovation in Sheng, a Youth Language or Stylect of Kenya.. In: Studies in Language, 48, 2024, 909-950
2023Hurst-Harosh, E. & Kanana Erastus, F.: Clever or Smarter? Style and Indexicality in Gendered Constructions of Male and Female Youth Identities in Kenya and South Africa. . In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses. ibidem Verlag, 2023. 79-96
2023Kanana Erastus, F., & Kinyua, A. Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous language, Media Performance and Change in Kenya. . In: African Studies Review, 66, 2023, 417-440
2023Rudd, P. & Kanana Erastus, F. Hustling Vibaya: Femininities and the Modern Kenya Woman. . In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses. . ibidem Verlag, 2023. 189- 213
2023Cunha, C., Kanana, F. & Harrington, J. Variation and palatalisation in the production of the plural prefix in Meru: a study of three dialects. . https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104991/1/icphs_kenya.pdf. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104991/1/icphs_kenya.pdf, 2023.
2022Erastus, F.K., Orwenjo, D.O & Gathigia, M.N. Escaping the Margins of Society: New Media and Youth Language Practices across the Rural-Urban Divide in Kenya.. In: Multilingual Margins: A Journal of Multilingualism from the Periphery, 9, 2022, 83-100