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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 176–197PDF of Pragmatic Functions Of Pauses In Nigerian Online Chat Interactions: A Gricean And Austinian Perspective

   Pragmatic Functions Of Pauses In Nigerian Online Chat Interactions: A Gricean And Austinian Perspective

   Ngozi Georginia Ugochukwu and Prisca O. Bob

   study investigates the pragmatic functions of pauses in Nigerian online chat interactions, focusing on platforms such as WhatsApp and X (formerly Twitter). While digital communication has been widely studied … role of temporal and textual pauses (e.g., delayed responses, ellipses) as meaning-making resources remains underexplored in the Nigerian context. Drawing on H. P. Grice's Cooperative Principle

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 203–223PDF of Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Rhythmic Form and the Production of Meaning in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry

   Caroline Olubunmi Nwaka and Anthonia-Greg Nwanekwu Chibuoke

   literary Formalism and close textual analysis, the study investigates the effects of repetition, stress, pause, lineation, syntax, rhyme, and rhythmic variation on the movement and significance of Brooks’s poetic … adapts the rhythms of ordinary speech while modifying them through repetition, interruption, acceleration, and pause, thereby creating formal structures that intensify or complicate the meanings of her poems. The study