Levis Mugumya
List of John Benjamins publications for which Levis Mugumya plays a role.
Articles
2023 The ‘Covid-19 presidential genre’: An exploration of off-the-cuff rhetoric of fighting the pandemic Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss (eds.), pp. 102–134 | Chapter
This chapter examines the presidential addresses delivered by the Ugandan president during the Covid-19 lockdown. It invokes genre analysis to examine the nature of the rhetorical moves that characterised the Presidential statements. It also employs critical discourse analysis to examine the… read more
2015 Reporting land conflict in Uganda: A genre and appraisal theoretical analysis of Runyankore-Rukiga newspaper reports International Journal of Language and Culture 2:1, pp. 108–131 | Article
News reporting studies have largely been confined to the Western cultures and languages, yet news reporting in other languages has proliferated throughout the world (Thomson et al. 2008; Thomson & White 2008). This article explores news reporting in Runyankore-Rukiga, an agglutinating Ugandan Bantu… read more