AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN ERNEST-SAMUEL’S EPISTOLARY NOVELS: DEAR KELECHI AND ITS SEQUEL
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whereby the language users must understand one another in other to encode and
decode locutions and once the speaker or the writer performs with the words, it
sends signals to the hearer or the reader with appropriate meaning, especially in
solving the issues on negative response from the hearer or the reader. The novel
analysed with this work was Dear Kelechi, an epistolary written by a friend
Iheoma to her bosom friend Kelechi. The work extensively used the four Grice’s
Cooperative Principles as the theory applied in analysing the research questions
raised and the data were analysed based on textual analysis guided by the
research questions with its finding of the writer used the illocutionary effects in
creating a new raised world to the receiver. Finally, well-articulated illocution
must produce a positive thought especially in return.
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