Ndinzi Masagara
Biographic Data
| ID | 6175476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ndinzi Masagara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ndinzi |
| FAMILY NAME | Masagara |
| SIGNATURE | MASAGARA N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conveying and Evaluating Speakers Commitment to Telling the Truth
In pre-Christian Rundi-Rwanda society, traditional oaths associated with traditional social values were the only oath variants used in everyday interactions by speakers of Kirundi-Kinyarwanda to convey or to evaluate speakers' commitment to telling the truth (Masagara, 1991, 1997). Kirundi is spoken in the contemporary state of Burundi, and a mutually intelligible variety – Kinyarwanda – is spoken in Rwanda, though the two varieties are no respec…
Negotiating The Truth Through Oath Forms
Every language system contains mechanisms for interpreting the relative truth value of claims made by speakers. Kirundi and Kinyarwanda- two closely related African1 languages- use the concept of traditional oath forms to enable speakers to interpret and negotiate the understanding of the relative truth value of claims. The use of traditional oath forms in these languages is distinctly different from practices in European (colonial) languages
Conveying and Evaluating Speakers Commitment to Telling the Truth
In pre-Christian Rundi-Rwanda society, traditional oaths associated with traditional social values were the only oath variants used in everyday interactions by speakers of Kirundi-Kinyarwanda to convey or to evaluate speakers' commitment to telling the truth (Masagara, 1991, 1997). Kirundi is spoken in the contemporary state of Burundi, and a mutually intelligible variety – Kinyarwanda – is spoken in Rwanda, though the two varieties are no respec…
Negotiating The Truth Through Oath Forms
Every language system contains mechanisms for interpreting the relative truth value of claims made by speakers. Kirundi and Kinyarwanda- two closely related African1 languages- use the concept of traditional oath forms to enable speakers to interpret and negotiate the understanding of the relative truth value of claims. The use of traditional oath forms in these languages is distinctly different from practices in European (colonial) languages
Conveying and Evaluating Speakers Commitment to Telling the Truth
In pre-Christian Rundi-Rwanda society, traditional oaths associated with traditional social values were the only oath variants used in everyday interactions by speakers of Kirundi-Kinyarwanda to convey or to evaluate speakers' commitment to telling the truth (Masagara, 1991, 1997). Kirundi is spoken in the contemporary state of Burundi, and a mutually intelligible variety – Kinyarwanda – is spoken in Rwanda, though the two varieties are no respec…
Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Oath (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Computer Science (1 work)