Dr. Flemmings Ngwira

Dr. Flemmings Ngwira

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Language & Communication Studies

10 publications

Flemmings Ngwira is a Senior Lecturer at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) and the current Head of the Academic Department; Language and Communication. He holds a PhD in Applied Psychology (Health Communication) and besides teaching and doing consultancies, he supervises and...

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Projecting Voice in Political Discourse: A Study of Saulos Klaus Chilima’s Discursive Strategies, Malawi

Journal Article
Published 1 year ago, 636 views
Author
Wellman Kondowe
Co-authors
Dr. Flemmings Ngwira
Abstract
The study takes a stance to explore the political discourse speech in Malawi as the country draws closer to the May 2019 general elections. This is a war-like zone period with different political figures pursuing, negotiating, and struggling for power. We specially mount our research to investigate how Saulos Klaus
Chilima strategizes to get the winning card by exploring his voice and voice projection techniques during the launch of his party. We have hence borrowed insights from Heffer’s (2013, 2018) Voice Projection framework (VPF) and used Nvivo 11 Pro software in the analysis. The study discovers that his launch speech is highly authorizing, persuading, converging, and highlighting with very few instances of centring, and indexing which made the speech more powerful, stimulating and impressive. The study brings a different dimension of analyzing political discourse by shopping a theory from Forensic discourse
Year of Publication
2019
Journal Name
Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Volume
9
Issue
5
Page Numbers
500-509
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