PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES AS A FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS
ABSTRACT This work is a pragmatic analysis of congratulatory messages in selected Nigerian newspapers. It looked at how Pragmatics as a field of study, clarified written texts, that is congratulatory messages. It also analysed the language and pragmatic features of newspaper congratulatory messages. The data for the study came from three different Nigerian newspapers: Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune and Vanguard. The data was collected from a media house and ...
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