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A socio-cultural understanding of death: A genre analysis of obituaries in a Kenyan newspaper

Jacquiline OndimuDepartment of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Moi University, [email protected]
Pages 3-22 | Received 18 Feb 2013, Accepted 13 May 2013, Published online: 27 Mar 2014

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