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Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI
marks contribute to the organisation of grammatical structures, the interpretation of propositions, and the pragmatic construction of meaning in a politically charged editorial discourse. The analysis focuses on six punctuation … relationships among successive claims. Quotation marks distinguish reported assertions from the editorial voice, creating pragmatic distance and foregrounding contradictions in official accounts. Apostrophes and hyphens further contribute to grammatical precision
Alawode, Liasu Adebamiji Akinkunmi
assumptions insufficiently accessible; explicitation may improve comprehension while increasing ideological visibility; paraphrase may clarify pragmatic meaning while reducing metaphorical density; and contextual glossing may provide a productive balance between cultural … argues that responsible Yoruba – English translation should attend simultaneously to metaphorical structure, cultural presupposition, pragmatic meaning, historical context, and gender ideology
Jaafar Ahmad Wakili and Maryam Sani Babayo
emojis and 126 stickers. The findings show that emojis and stickers perform affective, pragmatic, interpersonal, humorous, and identity-related functions, extending and sometimes substituting for verbal messages. While emojis primarily … provide emotional and pragmatic cues, stickers often convey more elaborate expressive and interactional meanings and can function as standalone communicative acts. Both resources contribute to managing interpersonal relations, signalling shared
Bernice N. Ogbochie, Onyedikachi A. Okodo, Goodluck C. Kadiri and Ogechi C. Unachukwu
Chidi Nwankwo, Kenneth Ahaiwe and Chuka Ononye
digital linguistic attacks remain under-scrutinised. Addressing this gap, this study empirically investigates the pragmatic features and socio-political functions of impoliteness in online user comments responding to media reports … Sahara Reporters. Adopting a qualitative socio-cognitive approach grounded in Jonathan Culpeper’s (2011) pragmatic impoliteness framework, a working corpus of 180 comments organised into 25 interactional frames was purposively
Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
study was anchored in Anita Fetza’s contextualisation theory and Jacob Mey’s Pragmatic Acts. Three discourse features triggered impoliteness in political banter: control, affiliation, and status moderation. Attempts
Adenike Opeyemi OMOLAOYE
marital misconduct. Extant studies on Nigerian courtroom discourse have explored speech acts, transitivity, and pragmatic acts. Little attention has been paid to the lexicalisation of discursive strategies in divorce proceedings
Chidi Nwankwo, Justus Chidi Ugwu and Chuka Ononye
Linguistic studies on media representation of ND conflicts have utilised pragmatic, discourse analytical, and stylistic tools in exploring the contexts of participants’ engagement in the discourse, and the ideology
Chidi Nwankwo, Clementina Okoye and Chuka Ononye
Nairaland online community website), transposed to MS Word with line numbers, and subjected to pragmatic analysis, with insights from Culpeper’s impoliteness formulae and aspects of lexical semantics discourse. Four
Memunat Olayemi Mahmud
This study examines Yoruba-English code-switching as a stylistic and pragmatic resource in contemporary Yoruba praise-and-worship music. Contemporary gospel music remains comparatively under-examined as a site