Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in Asabe Kabir Usman’s Destinies of Life

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2018-03-13

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Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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This paper anchors the Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in Asabe Kabir Usman’s Destinies of Life. The study aims to bring out the illocutionary acts as contained in the novel being analysed. The data collection was primarily from the text; Destinies of Life. The theoretical framework is the Speech act theory as propounded by Searle (1969). The different types of illocutionary acts used in the text were identified and analysed. Simple percentage was also used thereafter to analyse the data. The five types of illocutionary acts itemised by Searle were found in the text. All together, the text contained a total of 570 occurrences of illocutionary acts with 239 being directives, 201 representatives, 49 expressives, 49 declaratives and 32 commissives, From the analysis, it was glaring that directives as one of the illocutionary acts which has to do with characters expressing their desires/wishes to get something done was more prominent in the text.

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Speech act, Communication, Pragmatics, Text

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Austin, John Langshaw. How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962. Cummings, Louise. Pragmatics. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Cutting, Joan. Pragmatics and Discourse. New York: Routledge, 2002. Fromkin, Victoria. An Introduction to Language. Boston Thomson Place, 2003. Huang, Yan. Pragmatics. New York: University Press, 2005. Kabir, AsabeUsman. Destinies of Life. Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd, 2014. Leech, G. N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.

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https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3723

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