Africa and The Wider World.
Abstract The subject of poverty, political instability, technological backwardness, religious extremist insecurity and debt burden, to mention but a few dominate current affairs Amon Africa nations. The continent of Africa had been relegated to the ground among the committee of nations because of the above events. In most cases, most Africa countries are tagged to be developing, some underdevelop and mostly in the international scene as the third world countries. These had led to arising ques...
A SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF INDIRECTNESS IN DUL JOHNSON'S MELANCHOLIA.
ABSTRACT This research analyzes indirectness in selected utterances of characters in Dul Johnson’s Melancholia. It aims to identify how characters in the play deployed direct and indirect speech act in their conversations. It also examines the effects of the indirect speech act on the hearers; and the motives of the characters for deploying speech act in their conversations. Meanwhile, this study adopts Searle’s Speech Act Theory (SAT) 1969. The researcher finds out that characters deploy...
A Speech Act Analysis of Indirectness in Dul Johnson's Melancholia
ABSTRACT This research analyzes indirectness in selected utterances of characters in Dul Johnson’s Melancholia. It aims to identify how characters in the play deployed direct and indirect speech act in their conversations. It also examines the effects of the indirect speech act on the hearers; and the motives of the characters for deploying speech act in their conversations. Meanwhile, this study adopts Searle’s Speech Act Theory (SAT) 1969. The researcher finds out that characters deploy...