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Publication details [#28792]

Ioratim-Uba, Godwin Aondona. 1999. A president, speech acts and development in Nigeria: Analysing consequences of the Gulf between promise and fulfilment. ITL 125 - 126 : 195–227.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | interaction | political speech | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper uses the extended speech act theory to explore the opposition between promise and fulfilment in the political person versus group discourse of a Nigerian military president.