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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
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 … force in text-based interactions. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the research combines discourse-pragmatic analysis of twenty purposively selected, anonymized chat excerpts drawn from Nigerian WhatsApp groups
Adegboye ADEYANJU
This study reanalyses police interrogation in Kano metropolis through a rhetoro-pragmatic forensic discourse framework that explains how pragmatic actions acquire rhetorical force in institutional investigative encounters. Although previous studies … level account of forensic interaction that integrates descriptive quantitative evidence with context-sensitive rhetoro-pragmatic interpretation. It argues that the forensic significance of interrogation lies not only in obtaining information
Adegboye ADEYANJU
This study stress-tests a developing Multimodal Rhetoro-Pragmatics framework through a purposive visual corpus drawn from the office of a cultural historian at the University of Abuja, Nigeria … follows a trajectory from multimodal ensemble through materiality and spatial configuration to semiotic patterning, pragmatic framing or action, rhetorical strategy and social effect. Findings indicate that the office functions simultaneously
Oladimeji Olaniyi and Onuche, Joshua Ene'Ojo
This study presents a pragmatic analysis of Psalm 35, an imprecatory psalm traditionally attributed to David, focusing on how language communicates meaning within its socio-religious context. The study … psalmist’s utterances. Deixis, presupposition, implicature and relevance are employed as complementary pragmatic concepts to account for contextual reference, background assumptions, implied meanings and contextual interpretation. The analysis shows that
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
Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI
securitization theory (Balzacq, 2005; Buzan et al., 1998) provide the two formal frameworks. Pragmatic speech-act functions are used only as a supporting descriptive lens. The analysis shows that militarized
T. O. Adesanmi
paper argues that the epitaphic formula “Here lies...” is not merely locative but a pragmatic philosophical statement of embodied finitude that calls for existential reflection. Thus, this study, using … formulaic expression encodes what 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
Onyedikachi A. Okodo and Godwin Chibueze Didigwu
Political discourse is inherently competitive, with politicians deploying confrontational language to negotiate
Munachi Frances Agorua, Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo, Aminu Saleh, Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi, Bernice Nonye Ogbochie and Usman Abdullahi
flouting, classified according to Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner. Findings reveal developmental differences in pragmatic behaviour. Younger children mainly flouted Quantity through over-elaboration, while children in middle childhood increasingly … demonstrated more sophisticated Quality flouting, particularly through irony and hyperbole. Context also shaped the pragmatic strategies employed. Rather than causing communicative breakdown, maxim flouting enabled children to convey meanings through