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

Abstract

This paper represents an analysis of the texts of five inaugural addresses of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan NursultanNazarbayev 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.

Keywords

• inaugural address
• political discourse
• inaugural discourse
• inaugural genre
• Kazakhstan