A Pragmatic Treatment Of Bukavu Media Kiswahili

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: none, Bukavu Teachers Training College (English Department), course: Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: Abstract: This paper is an attempt at discourse analysis of a Kiswahili discourse. It aims at analyzing the discourse from a pragmatic approach and focuses on the study of pragmatic notions such as reference, presupposition, implicature, and inference.

Key words: Context, reference, presupposition, implicature, and inference.