Download Tag: VANGUARD NEWSPAPER.

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Pragmatics is a shift from strict grammatical rules to a situational language use.It is a linguistic theory that studies meaning from the perspectives of language users, communication code and socio-cultural conventions. Hence, Mey (2007:6) asserts that “Pragmatics Studies the use of language in human communication as determined by the conditions of society”. Cartoons are “Comic strips”. They create humour by portraying “observable characters in a society” (Bitner, ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS   Abstract CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION General introduction 1.1       Purpose of the study 1.2       Justification 1.3       Scope and limitation 1.4       Research methodology 1.5.0   Nigerian Newspapers 1.5.1   Vanguard-A Nigerian Newspaper 1.6       Summary CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0       Introduction 2.1.      An Overview of Pragmatics 2.2.0    Goals of Pragmatics 2.3.0    Theories of Pragmatics 2.3.1    Speech Acts Theory 2.3.2    Implicature Theory 2.3.3    Intention and Inference Theory 2.3.4    Contextual Theory 2.4.0    Pragmatic Elements ...