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A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NAIRA HAS NO GENDER BY OLUOBAFEMI   CHAPTER ONE 1.1       INTRODUCTION Discourse to the discourse analysts means actual instances of communicative action in the medium of language. According to Blommert (2005) as cited in Johnstone (2008) discourse is the meaningful symbolic behavior in any mode. Discourse is not totally focused on language as an abstract system. Instead discourse is interested in what happens when people apply the ...

ABSTRACT There have been interests over ages in studying how people communicate during interaction. This interest has lead to the emergence of discourse analysis which has the aim of studying how people communicate using sentence or clauses. In view of this, Naira has no gender, a play by Olu Obafemi, was selected in order to study and interpret how speeches were formed in the conversation between and among interlocutors in ...

ABSTRACT This work studied the discourse analysis of Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The encoded meaning in the conversational exchange among the characters in play has been analyzed through the use of some discourse elements like, turn taking, discourse participant etc. and also some pragmatics elements like context, implicature, reference etc. Chapter one is the general introduction, related literature is reviewed in chapter two, while there is data analysis ...