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A Pragmatic Analysis Of Selected Cartoons From Nigerian Dailies The ‘guardian, The Punch, And The Nation’
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1.3 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
Interaction gives the meaning of
certain word when an utterance is uttered. There is a need for a
research work on this study to pay attention to on cartoons. By doing
this, the pragmatic features and element will be identified. This will
assist students and readers to read cartoons at their leisure time.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This
study is being carried out using cartoons as a data from Nigerian
dailies The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation. The cartoon chosen are
twelve in all, these cartoons will cover three (3) months editions 2010
i.e August, September and October 2010. Some chosen features of
pragmatic analysis include Context, Participants, Mutual Contextual
Beliefs (MCBs), Intention, Message, Inference, Pre-supposition,
Implicature, Reference and World Knowledge.
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The
data for this study are cartoons selected from Nigerian dailies “The
Guardian, The Punch, The Nation. This research work will cover three
months edition of newspapers published in the month of August, September
and October 2010. The cartoons are twelve in all. Examples of the
pragmatic features used will be identified in the conversation of
characters in the text.
1.6 DATA DESCRIPTION
The data chosen
for this research work are cartoons selected from Nigerian dailies “The
Guardian, The Punch and The Nation. Cartoons are interaction between two
or more people, these people are usually sketched with a box pointing
towards each of them. It contains their various utterances, some are
political others are not .e.g Adult, Children and Government etc. The
cartoonists of the selected cartoons are Femora, Neearo, Prasad Golla,
Edun, Didi Onu, Obe ESS, Mayowa Adetula, Tayo Olujimi, Chukky, Stanley
and Azeez Sanni.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This work investigates how meaning is derived in an utterance through cartoons. It aimed at a pragmatic analysis of selected cartoons from these Nigerian dailies: The Guardian, The Punch and The Nation, in order to know the different functions of language in relation to context using Participants, Implicature, Inference, Presupposition, Intention, World Knowledge, Mutual Contextual Beliefs. The cartoons were chosen randomly for the analysis. It is found out that utterances are not uttered but fo ... Continue reading---
