Written By:
Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia.
Languages and Linguistics Department.
Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
SUMMARY
From the discussions on pragmatics
and political speeches, the huge data, on analysis of political speeches from
the foreign scene, has not guaranteed the same in African setting and Nigeria
in particular. By this token it becomes very necessary to advance this field of
knowledge by looking at the perlocutionary force of former president Olusegun
Obasanjo of Nigeria’s political speeches, to enable the researchers answer the
questions as stated in our research questions.
A linguistically based research
about the perlocutionary force of political speeches of Obasanjo is
necessitated by ongoing reassessment of earlier views about the pragmatic
theories, speech act theory and perlocutionary force with a view to determining
how applicable these theories are to our deeper insight into the field of
pragmatics and perlocutionary force in particular and to our Nigerian
situation.
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