Publications

Publication details [#39058]

Adegbija, Efurosibina. 1988. My friend, where is Anini? : Decoding the meaning of utterances. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (2) : 151–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | meaning | utterance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper uses the utterance ‘My friend, where is Anini?’, made by the Nigerian President to a retiring Inspector-General of police, as a starting point to study the decoding of the meaning of utterances.