This study examines persuasion and communicative intentions in Pentecostal sermons Nigeria. Notwithstanding the high scholarly inputs religious discourse, no single work has examined devices employed to achieve conviction as well twelve of selected preachers Nigeria by drawing insights from rhetoric pragmatic act account for data. Findings reveal that strategically deploy rhetorical question; d...

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