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    A Pragma – Syntactic Analysis of Traditional Nuptial Weep (Ekun Iyawo) Among People of Shao, Kwara State, Nigeria.
    (2016-04) KOLAWOLE SALIU
    Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that deals with the study of language used in a bid to communicate ideas or feelings. In order to establish the fact that Understanding is the basis of communication, this study focuses on what Utterance means through the pragmatic and syntactic analysis of nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo). The aim of the study is tailored towards appreciating African Aesthetics with particular reference to the beauty of African indigenous Language (Yoruba for example). In any Yoruba society, nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo) remains a song rendered by the bride who is about to formally commence marital Life. Since nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo) is context-sensitive, data were sampled naturally from a collection of Ekun Iyawo in Shao, a community blessed with Culture of her own origin. From the analysis, it has been clearly shown that Austin’s speech act types of illocution and perlocution are used while other relevant tools include metaphor and rhetorical questions. The syntactic features Include conjunctions, vocatives and communicative classification according to utterance. The study therefore finally concludes that Ekun Iyawo, pragmatically, involves declarative and interrogative renditions