TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nibaruta,Pasteur
AU  - Njejimana,Grégoire
ED  - University of Burundi
TI  - A sociolinguistic study of the jargon spolen by teza tea company workerqs
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Bujumbura
PB  - University of Burundi, Faculty of arts and social sciences, department of english language and literature
KW  - BI-BuBU
KW  - Sociolinguistique
KW  - Jargon
KW  - Employé
KW  - Compagnie
KW  - Thé
KW  - Teza
KW  - Mémoire
N2  - RESERVE,

This thesis with the sociolinguistic study of the jargon spoken by workers at Teza tea company.It aims at investigating jargon wods and expressions and analyse them a sociolinguistic perspective.Those are words and expressions that common people do not know or understand.To achieve this,informants were selected.The instruments used to collect data included among others,personal observation,questionnaire,interview.Finally,he researcher came up with ninety-nine words and expressions which organate from Kirundi,French and English.It was revealed that the jergon words and expression used by workers at the Teza tea company undergo a semantic change.This work also revealed that workers use their jargon in order to escape fom the autorities,to respect cultural values,to exclude others and to reduce seriousness.Words are transferred into their special language by using linguistic mechanisms like borrowing,reduplication,clipping,coinage and blends.They are also ecqually transferredusing semantic relationsuch synonymy,polysemy,antonymy and stylistic devices such as hyberbole,euphemism and mentonymy,Finally,the researcher concluded his work by recommending to carry out further research in companies which are not explored and suggested  that they  should come up with new approaches
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