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Esther Chiebonam Osiaku and Henrietta Nnenna Ugwu
This study examines the pragmatic acts performed in selected Nigerian online discourses surrounding the #EndSARS protest of 2020. The study is motivated by the need to extend pragmatic analysis … media posts and placards to spoken online video discourse. It adopts Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts Theory as its analytical framework, with particular attention to the contextual strategies of shared
Amaka G. Nwuche, Kelvin S. Onyeagwaram and and Ogechi C. Unachukwu
purposively selected from the discourse and qualitatively analysed using insights from Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts Theory. Analysis focuses on identifying the speech’s dominant practs, the contextual resources through
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