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Publication details [#64563]

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka. 2018. Direct quotations in Nigerian investigative public hearings. Text & Talk 38 (4) : 503–524.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | hearer | interpretation | pragmatic function | quotative

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This article explores the forms, frequency and pragmatic functions of direct quotations in Nigerian investigative public hearings on the Federal Capital Territory administration, which point out how speakers in the hearings frame their discourse to aid hearers to fitly interpret their talk.