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Towards a Typology of Locutionary Strategies: A Case Study of Selected Nigerian Film Discourses
Language users violate linguistic conventions because meaning is not exhaustive. They control language for effective communication. This study attempts a classification of locutionary (communicative) strategies via an analysis of selected utterances from Nigerian film discourses (recorded conversational ...
Refusal Strategies in Offers and Directives: An Overview of Selected Texts from Radio Drama Episodes
This study attempts an overview of different refusal strategies used by characters in the drama genre, and by extension, humans in everyday communication. Although the study is neither strictly a stylistic nor pragmatic analysis of texts, it is an investigation of the stylo-pragmatic components that ...
Revisiting Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory: A Middle-Eastern Perspective
This article attempts to examine the theory of politeness proposed by Brown and Levinson in 1978. It presents its strengths and weaknesses from the point of view of many experienced linguists. Furthermore, the author contributes with her own observations and research results in relation to the theory ...
The Pragmatics of Proverbs in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi
This study examined the pragmatics of proverbs in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi. The study focused particularly on the interpretation of the proverbs used in the text, based on the contexts in which they were used. The study used content analysis as its design, which gave room for a critical analysis of the proverbs ...