Inaugural Address of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (1991-2015): Genre Peculiarities of Inaugural Discourse Cover Image

Inaugural Address of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (1991-2015): Genre Peculiarities of Inaugural Discourse
Inaugural Address of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (1991-2015): Genre Peculiarities of Inaugural Discourse

Author(s): Zhaniya Abdiman
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Diplomatic history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Asociaţiunea Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român - ASTRA
Keywords: inaugural address; political discourse; inaugural discourse; inaugural genre;

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an analysis of the texts of five inaugural addresses of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev from 1991 through 2015 and an attempt to elicit whether the functions peculiar to the American inaugural address, developed over the long history of inaugural tradition, are relevant to the study of the presidential inaugural addresses of Kazakhstan.

  • Issue Year: VI/2018
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 19-34
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English