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CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION  Language is an instrument of thought or concept which gives clear and vivid meaning of human expression for the purpose of human interaction.  In any speech community, if there must be interaction, language must be in use.  Human language is said to be communicative when language users are able to use words as appropriate to context.  Quirk (1962, P.42) sees language as a “human instrument of ...

ABSTRACT   This study is a pragmatic analysis of the use of compliments in selected Nigerian newspapers. Compliments sourced from the feature article sections of the selected newspapersform the data collected for analysis. The selected compliments are analysed highlighting the contexts in which they were used, while applying the Speech Act theory as propounded by Austin (1962)and the Gricean Maxims which are sub-principles of the Cooperative Principle. The analyses of ...

A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF NIGERIAN PROVERBS IN WOLE SOYINKA’S “THE LION AND THE JEWEL” CHAPTER ONE 1.0     INTRODUCTION Communication in the society happens chiefly by means of language. However, the users of language, as social beings, communicate and use language within the context as society; society controls their access to the linguistic and communicative means. Language, being the most important means of communication, interaction and social integration among individuals in ...

ABSTRACT Language is an integral part of our socio-cultural heritage that serves as the primary medium of communication for mankind.  Pragmatics evolved to drill out meanings and to give interpretations to utterances beyond what is literarily said.  This research work was carried out in order to give light to political interviews and to bring out meanings that are embedded in utterances made by politicians.  One of the Nigerian daily newspapers ...

  ABSTRACT Given the fact that communication is chiefly achieved through language, it is therefore important to study and account for how speakers encode their utterances and how meanings are decoded from the utterances during communication. This has made us to attempt a pragmatic analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan’s inaugural speech, Nigeria: Our Nation in Mourning, because of its socio-political importance with a view to accounting for how the president ...