The pragmatics of Kirundi marriage discourse : speech acts and discourse strategies

This dissertation is a descriptive study of speech acts encoded in Kirundi marriage transactional discourse and the strategies used by the participants to encode them and attempts to understand the interrelationships between the speech acts and the strategies.Chapter 1 states the objectives and desc...

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Main Author: Nkurikiye, Sylvestre
Other Authors: Houlette, Forrest T.
Format: Others
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/179147
http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833004