Brighton Msagalla
Lecturer
Office: Office No. 40, Arts Quadrangle
Dr Brighton Msagalla is a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics. His research interests are in critical discourse studies, argumentation theory, parliamentary studies, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. His publications include 'Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate' (2021) with Marianna Visser, 'Quotation and misquotation in Tanzanian parliamentary debates' (2022), 'Thinking like Nyerere: Authority argumentation by quotation in Tanzanian parliamentary discourse' (2024), and '"I compare President Magufuli to Jesus Christ': Metaphorical analogy in Tanzanian parliamentary discourse.'