earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

This paper presents an aspect of research work that was carried out to resolve the many challenges in Nigeria electoral process. All efforts by Nigerian voters to ensure that their votes are counted and used to declare results in all the general elections conducted failed. The officials saddled with the responsibilities to conduct and declare election results in Nigeria, connived with dubious P...

One of the compelling reasons for natural language research and, in particular, computer speech research is that speech is a defining characteristic of humanity and something that virtually all people can do at a level that far surpasses the best artificial implementations. Humans, however, are not infallible; most only speak one language and aren’t able to handle the specialized vocabulary of ...

doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in south-western nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. the goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. the findings indicate that...

This article attempts to investigate how politicians used their rhetoric influence audiences by examining the specific types of speech rhetoric. Though they employ various rhetorical speeches when delivering manifestos. It thus seeks assess effectiveness Speech Act Theory as a framework for analysing Alhaji Umar Musa Yar Adua and Abubakar Rimi in order gain better understanding political purpos...

Introduction: There exist very scanty literatures on public awareness on the anaesthesiology profession amongst the Nigerian populations. This study aims to determine the level of awareness of the anaesthesiology profession among a population of tertiary school students, academic and non-academic staff members who were attending a South-western Nigerian zonal conference. Methods: Data obtained...