The Discourse of Political Language in Kenya

ISBN-13: 9783846526156 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str.

John Habwe

Opis

This book attempts an explication into an understanding of political language in Kenya. It specifically focuses on the problems of cohesion, coherence and pragmatic meaning in selected texts of Swahili political speeches. To handle these disparate problems of Swahili discourse, an eclectic approach is employed comprising of Implicature approach by Grice (1975), cohesion approach by Halliday & Hasan (1976) and Topic Framework approach by Brown & Yule (1983). The book amounts from data in a field based research. It uses filmed data recorded by audio-visual equipment and finally transcribed and analyzed focusing on specific aims.

O autorze

Prof. J.H Habwe lectures linguistics at the University of Nairobi where he is currently serving as the Chairman in the Department of Linguistics and Languages. His areas of specialization are discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Prof. Habwe is also a prolific Kiswahili novelist and short story writer.