A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Political Interviews in a Nigerian Newspaper
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2020
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Abstract
Language is a pivotal instrument in political dispensations
and as man is a political animal, he manipulates the language
at his disposal for designing his world and accomplishing his
numerous social goals. Thus, the study explores a pragmatic
analysis of selected political interviews in The Punch
newspaper with a view to seeing how politicians use
language to express and convince people of their thoughts.
The study drew insights from Mey's (2001) aspects of
Pragmatic acts as the theoretical framework undergirding the
study. A total of ten (10) political interviews were selected
and analysed from the points of pragmatic acts, implicature
and presupposition. The study revealed that instantiated act
practs of informing, stating, lamenting, advising,
accentuating, advocating, threatening, promising etc were
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