A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Political Interviews in a Nigerian Newspaper

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dc.contributor.authoribrahim Omolabi & Mahfouz Adedimeji
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-26T11:10:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-26T11:10:35Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractLanguage 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 - 88 - ANUJAT/VOLUME 6/NUMBER 2/MAY 2019/ARTICLE 5
dc.identifier.urihttps://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/3327
dc.titleA Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Political Interviews in a Nigerian Newspaper
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