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Research Article
Vol. 15, Issue 1
A PRAGMATIC INVESTIGATION OF FACE THREATING ACT IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE, NIGERIA
The use of language could either be for positive or negative purposes. As a result of this, the success or failure of any conversation solely depends on the interlocutors. This study investigated face-threatening acts in the Nigerian context to highlight the intentional use of utterances for attack in discourse situations. Culpeper's (1996) Model o...
