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A Pragmatic Study Of Some Selected Political Posters
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1.2 JUSTIFICATION
So far it has been discovered from the
analysis of previous research that many a researcher, who have carried
research works on this particular aspect of pragmatics and its use on
political posters have left some unresolved issues which we hope to
clarify. Previous or past works on this matter need be advanced with the
hope that future researchers would find it worthwhile in making
reference to this work as a stepping stone. The manipulation of language
as pointed out in the work of Mey (2001, p308) in his publication
Pragmatics: An Introduction is an issue that need be corrected. The
author seems to view utterance (what he referred to as ‘manipulation’)
from the negative aspect. It must be stated that not all manipulation of
language are of diabolic intention. Mey (2001) gave limited information
which we hope to expand. Conversely, this present work will take a
deeper look at the utterance of political posters (i.e. word captions,
pictures, and headlines etc), their pragmatic meaning and implication on
the hearers.
1.3 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY
There
are many aspect of pragmatics in different fields, delving into all its
parts in entire will be too daunting for this research work. It is,
therefore, necessary to limit our research to a more specific unit.
Herein, we make use of Leech’s (1983) Principles of Pragmatics as we
attempt to define, describe, analyse, explain and subsume the core
aspects of pragmatics. This will, in no small way, help our
understanding of some selected political posters i.e. applying those
pragmatic features on samples of political newspaper headlines,
pictures, captions etc entailing how meanings are decoded from them.
1.4 METHODOLOGY
The data of choice as used in this research work would be from randomly
selected samples of political posters. By this, we mean deploying
pragmatic elements, rules ad theories to captions, pictures etc in
political aspect. These data material are randomly selected. We analyse
them (i.e. the posters), the language and the affect they are trying to
draw from the readers or hearers; the information they convey to the
readership etc. we examine the level of understanding these political
posters.
1.5 DATA DESCRIPTION
The data of choice for our
analysis focuses on the events building up to the 2011 elections, the
presidency state visits, and legal tussle that characterised the
previous election held in Nigeria. All these data were imprinted in the
pages of newspapers that fall within the year 2010.
Majority of these
data, seven of them precisely, were randomly selected from the THE
NATION newspaper. Two of them were taken from THE VANGUARD newspaper. A
datum was taken from THE SUN newspaper. The imprinted political posters
in these daily newspapers were randomly analysed. We apply the pragmatic
elements on these data wherever applicable.
The next chapter shall deal with the theoretical aspect of pragmatics and the various postulations about pragmatics.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This long essay focuses on the pragmatics study of selected political posters imprinted in the pages of selected newspapers. It seeks to identify the influence of pragmatic elements on encoded texts or utterance; it analyse the thought provoking influence of such political posters; the rules of pragmatics governing the use of language in this aspect. The data of choice were randomly selected (from the pages of THE NATION, THE SUN and THE VANGUARD newspapers) and the pragmatic elements were appli ... Continue reading---
