dc.contributor.author | Habwe, John Hamu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-03T08:06:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-03T08:06:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nordic Journal of African Studies 19(3): 165–180 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/28605 | |
dc.description.abstract | Political speech animation in Kenya can be a complicated affair allowing both the speaker and
the audience to equally participate in speech animation. The audience could use the dialogue
opportunity to re-direct what the speech topic should be thus assigning new topics or could
even influence the direction of the ongoing speech topic.
On the other hand the speech animator uses dialogue as a gauging device of his ideas and
his own popularity as a member of political class, for control and coercion, engaging the
audience that could otherwise feel bored and leave the rally, discussing stage managed topics,
allowing the audience to lead directions in what could be an otherwise controversial topic
leading to impoliteness on the part of the speech animator.
Dialogue structure in Kenya is arguably present in most speeches though to a lesser
degree in formal speeches but to a greater extent in extemporaneous oral speeches. Success in
speech making has got to do with mastering how to sustain both the expected monologue
structure but also the dialogic structure where the audience is passive and active at the same time. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.subject | Kiswahili | en |
dc.subject | dialogue | en |
dc.subject | political speech | en |
dc.subject | implicature | en |
dc.title | Dialogue Drama in Kenyan Political Speeches & Its Pragmatic Implications | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Linguistics and African Languages | en |