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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 1 (September 2024)pp. 178–198PDF of Free Speech or Hate Speech? A Speech Act Analysis of Nnamdi Kanu's November 2019 Broadcast on Nigeria's Hate Speech Bill

   Free Speech or Hate Speech? A Speech Act Analysis of Nnamdi Kanu's November 2019 Broadcast on Nigeria's Hate Speech Bill

   Prisca O. Bob and Kwekowe, U. P.

   Bill 2019. This study applies Austin's (1962) and Searle's (1969) speech act theory to selected utterances drawn from a broadcast by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 21, Issue 2 (September 2021)pp. 121–141PDF of Pragmatic Analysis of Psalm 35

   Pragmatic Analysis of Psalm 35

   Oladimeji Olaniyi and Onuche, Joshua Ene'Ojo

   socio-religious context. The study is principally anchored in Searle’s (1969) Speech Act Theory, which provides a framework for identifying and interpreting the communicative functions of the psalmist

3. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 66–85PDF of Implicature and Self-Legitimization in Donald Trump's Political Discourse

   Implicature and Self-Legitimization in Donald Trump's Political Discourse

   Bernice N. Ogbochie, Onyedikachi A. Okodo, Goodluck C. Kadiri and Ogechi C. Unachukwu

4. 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

   Drawing on H. P. Grice's Cooperative Principle and J. L. Austin's Speech Act Theory, the study examines how pauses contribute to implicature and modify illocutionary force in text