TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bigirimana,Désiré
AU  - Nteziryayo,Antoine
ED  - University of Burundi
TI  - A Pragmatic analysis of the speech delivered by the chairperson of the 12 th summit of EAC heads of state
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Bujumbura
PB  - University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of English Language  and Literature
KW  - BI-BuBU
KW  - Discours
KW  - Analyse pragmatique
KW  - Communauté Est Africaine
KW  - Mémoire
N1  - A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"
N2  - Résumé,

Considering the fact that communication is mainly achieved through language, it is therefore important to study and account fo how speakers encode their utterances and how meanings are decoded from the utterance during communication. This has made us to attempt a pragmatic analysis of President Pierre Nkurunziza's speech while he was taking over from Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as Chairperson of  the EAC Summit, because of its political importance with a view to account for how the President and Chairperson has encoded his utterances and how meanings are generated from the utterances in the speech. All the sevecn utterancesin the transcribed text were anlyzed using pragmatic tools, which are speech acts, context, indexicals, implicature and relavance. This study has revealed to us the effects of cognition, social principles and context on the President's utterances and showed the President as a careful user of words and a performer of many actions with few utterances. Thus to succeed as a communicator, the speaker should be not only able to choose and arrange his words but also he should consider other non-linguistic factors

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