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Dr. Ruth Wangeci Ndung’u Irumbi Publications

PUBLICATIONS    
Articles in refereed journals   

  • Itumo, J.M., Irumbi, R. W., Buregeya, A., Karia, M. K. (2018) The diphthongs of the acrolectal Kenyan English spoken by the Black Indigenous Kenyans: The non-ethnically marked Kenyan English accent: An Element Theory based study. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(3):1902-1902   
  • Gathigia, M. G. Orwenjo, D. O. Ndung’u, R. W. (2018)   Foodsemic metaphors of love in Gĩkũyũ: Insights from cognitive semantics. Cognitive linguistic studies Vol. 5: 2  pp. 341–358 Gathigia, M.G. and Ndung’u, R. W. (2016) Metaphors of mental illness in Gĩkũyũ: A Bantu language  spoken  in Kenya,  Africa.  Journal  of  environmental  sustainability advancement research Vol. 2, 70-75   
  • Gathigia, M.G., Ndung’u, R. W., & Orwenjo, D.O. (2015). When romantic love in Gĩkũyũ becomes a human body part: A cognitive approach. Cognitive linguistic studies (CogLS), 2(1), 7993.   
  • Moses  G.  Gathigia,  Ruth  W.  Ndung’u  and  Martin  C.  Njoroge,  (2015)  Sexual  intercourse euphemisms  in  the  Gikuyu  language:  A  Cognitive  linguistic  approach.  The  University  of Nairobi Journal of language and linguistics, Volume 4(May), 20-41   
  • Angelina N Kioko, Ruth W Ndung’u, Martin C Njoroge and Jayne Mutiga (2014) Mother tongue and education in Africa: Publicising the Reality. In Multilingual education in africa. Springer Open 4:18 (31 July, 2014)   
  • Martin  C.  Njoroge,  Ruth  W.  Ndung’u,  and  Moses  Gatambuki  Gathigia  (2013)  The  use of crossword puzzles as a vocabulary learning strategy: A case of English as a second language in  Kenyan  Secondary Schools.  International journal of current research Vol.  5, Issue, 02, pp313-321, February, 2013.
  • Samwel Komenda, Geoffrey M. Maroko, Ruth W. Ndung’u (2013) The morphophonemics of vowel compensatory lengthening in Ekegusii. International journal of education and research, Vol. 1 No.9   
  • Ndung’u, Ruth and Kinyua, Mathew (2009) Cultural  perspectives  in  language  and  speech disorders. Disability studies quarterly Vol.29/4   
     
    Books 
  •  Mwangi, Phyllis W., Ndung’u, Ruth W., Njoroge, Martin C., and Orwenjo, Daniel O, (Editors) (2014) Multilingualism and education in Africa. Springer Open July, 2014   
  • Orwenjo, Daniel O, Njoroge, Martin C., Ndung’u, Ruth W. and Mwangi, Phyllis W. (Editors) (2014) Multilingualism and education in Africa: The state of the state of the art. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-6222-3, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-6222-6.   
  • Ndung’u, R.W. (2011) The use of synonyms by second language learners of English: Patterns, communication strategies and pedagogic implications. VDM Publishing House Ltd, Germany. ISBN 9783-639-21932-6   
  • Gatambuki, Moses and Ndung’u Ruth ((2011) A cognitive linguistic  analysis:  analysis  of euphemisms of death, sexual intercourse, body effluvia, diseases and body parts  in Gikuyu using the conceptual metaphor theory. VDM Publishing House Ltd, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-639-36050-9.   
       
    Book chapters    
  • Gathigia,  M.G., Orwenjo, D.O.  & Ndung’u, R. W. (2018). When menstruation becomes  a visitor: A cognitive linguistics approach to taboo in Gĩkũyũ.  In Pedraza, Andrea Pizarro (Ed.) Linguistic  Taboo  Revisited.  Novel  Insights  from  Cognitive  Perspectives.  Series:  Cognitive Linguistics Research. Mouton de Gruyter.   
  • Karia, Mathew, Ndung’u, Ruth and Njoroge Martin (2017) The role of speech therapy in the management of individuals born with a cleft lip and / or palate in Kenya.
  • A book by SLP Njoroge,  M.C.  Ndung’u,  R.  W.,  & Gathigia,  M.G.  (2014).  Our teacher  doesn’t  speak  like theirs:  
    Analysis  of  variations  in  the  spoken  English  of  teachers  in  multilingual  settings  in  Kenya,  Africa.  In  D.O.  Orwenjo,  M.C.  Njoroge,  R.W.  Ndung’u  &  P.W.  Mwangi  (Eds.), Multilingualism  and  education  in  Africa:  The  state  of  the  state  of  the  art  (pp.  239-266). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-6222-3, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438- 6222-6.   
  • Ndung’u, Ruth (2010) Socialization and violence: Ideas and practices in Kenya. In wa Mungai, Mbugua and George Gona (Eds.) (Re)Membering Kenya. Vol. 1. Identity, culture and freedom. Twaweza Communications Ltd.   
  • Njoroge, Martin C. and Ndung’u, Ruth (2009) Learners’ acquisition of English Vocabulary: Challenges and implications for classroom teaching practice (Kenya). In Makelela, Leketi (Ed.) Language teacher research in Africa. Language teacher research series. TESOL Inc.