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Bukola Alfred, Morenike, Elizabeth Kolapo and Beke-ere Mienbi Singer
Family dynamics are the unique patterns of communication between family members, which
Nkechinyere Nwaegbe, Chidi Nwankwo and Chuka Ononye
Generally, linguistic scholarship on Christian sermons has used discourse-analytic and pragmatic
Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu and Prisca O. Bob
Nigerian participants. The findings indicate that pauses function as salient paralinguistic cues that index cognitive processing, hesitation, politeness strategies, and relational stance. In Gricean terms, pauses often generate implicatures
Chidi Nwankwo, Ijeoma Uchenna-Okoye and Chuka Ononye
representation of news participants’ conditions in the discourse. While the former is indexed by such stylistic choices as the use of the modality system and the concept of presupposition
T. O. Adesanmi
Heidegger calls “being-there,” existence in terms of spatial presence. Pragmatically, “here” is an indexical anchor that obliges deictic alignment, implying that the reader, by reading “here,” must have