Discursive Pragmatics of Unsolicited Advice in Lifestyle Weblogs.
Lifestyle weblogs are a category of blogging activities in a Nigerian online community website where members interact and exchange information including advice exchanges. A total number of 135 blogs were studied and analyzed in the frame of critical discourse analyses and pragmatics. The study shows that narrativity, directive speech acts, and indirectness are the main discursive strategies...
Published at Papers in English and Linguistics. Ife, (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) Vol. 12,
Published in 2011
Chiluwa, I.
Chiluwa Innocent E. MNAL. » Innocent Chiluwa is Professor of English Linguistics (Discourse Analysis) and Media/Digital Communications in the Department of Languages & General Studies, Covenant University, Ota (Nigeria). He is currently the Head of Department and former Dean, College of Leadership and Development Studies.
Prof. Chiluwa is a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) (Bonn), and a... view full profile