Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Issues in Theory and Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9789597231 ISBN 13: 9789789597239

Publisher: Malthouse Pr, 2018

Synopsis

Seeking a balance between discourse analysis and pragmatics and between theory and practice, linguists offer a cross-sectional view of scholarship in the two closely related disciplines, specifically from the perspective of how the intersection of theory and practice enables Nigerian scholars to understand and analyze texts that have pan-Nigerian peculiarities. The topics include conversational analysis, the history and scope of pragmatics, the speech act analysis of president Goodluck Jonathan and General Mohammed Buhari's 31 March 2015 telephone conversation, contextualizing an African brand of terrorism in the eye of critical discourse: a case study of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic sect, and forensic analysis. Distributed in the US by African Books Collective. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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About the Author

Professor Gbenga Ibileye is of the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria. His close to three decades of scholarship, spanning many institutions in Nigeria and Senegal, has been focused on research in (Critical) Discourse Analysis, especially, legal and constitutional documents; Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics and Forensic Linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Malthouse Pr
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9789597231
• ISBN 13: 9789789597239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Ibileye Gbenga