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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| description | 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 the categories of illocutionary acts performed with the broadcasts in order to enhance a better understanding of the broadcasts. Data were collected via the Nigerian national archives and newspaper publications. The data collected were analysed, using insights from the theory of speech acts. Considering the context in which the broadcasts were given and the communicative intention of the speaker, five categories of illocutionary acts namely; representatives, directives, commissives, expressive and declaratives were found to characterize the data. Among these, only the representative and commissive acts were found to be predominant. These could be described as institutional acts associated with Independence Day broadcasts as a genre of political discourse.
The article concludes that reading Independence Day broadcasts from the speech acts lenses has potency of enhancing a better understanding of the broadcasts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1c7095f622a4cc4a66637e1b17604712022-12-21T21:11:41ZdeuEditura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu AradJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies2067-65572247-23712015-11-01VI2103120The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993Kazeem K. Olaniyan0Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, OgbomosoThis 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 the categories of illocutionary acts performed with the broadcasts in order to enhance a better understanding of the broadcasts. Data were collected via the Nigerian national archives and newspaper publications. The data collected were analysed, using insights from the theory of speech acts. Considering the context in which the broadcasts were given and the communicative intention of the speaker, five categories of illocutionary acts namely; representatives, directives, commissives, expressive and declaratives were found to characterize the data. Among these, only the representative and commissive acts were found to be predominant. These could be described as institutional acts associated with Independence Day broadcasts as a genre of political discourse. The article concludes that reading Independence Day broadcasts from the speech acts lenses has potency of enhancing a better understanding of the broadcasts.http://www.jhss.ro/downloads/12/articles/9%20Olaniyan.pdfPragmaticsContextIllocutionary ActsIndependence Day BroadcastsIbrahim Babangida |
| spellingShingle | Kazeem K. Olaniyan The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993 Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies Pragmatics Context Illocutionary Acts Independence Day Broadcasts Ibrahim Babangida |
| title | The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993 |
| title_full | The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993 |
| title_short | The Pragmatics of General Ibrahim Babangida’s Independence Day Broadcasts, 1985–1993 |
| title_sort | pragmatics of general ibrahim babangida s independence day broadcasts 1985 1993 |
| topic | Pragmatics Context Illocutionary Acts Independence Day Broadcasts Ibrahim Babangida |
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