The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993

This article examines the pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts with particular attention to the speech acts that the speeches are used to perform. It is motivated by the paucity of work on Independence Day speeches most especially in Nigeria and the need to identify...

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Main Author: Kazeem K. Olaniyan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad 2015-11-01
Series:Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies
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Online Access:http://www.jhss.ro/downloads/12/articles/9%20Olaniyan.pdf