Pragmatic Analysis Of Olisa Meth'sdysphemisms Against President Mohammadu Buhari's Administration

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1            Background to the study Varied researches on the use of language has made language users understand the fact that there is more to meaning making than grammaticality of a sentence. Semantics is made an anchorage of the branch of linguistics that studies meaning making in communications. Further researches by scholars have however shown that there is more to the ordinary, literal meaning of sentences got from string of utterances. Often times we mean more than we say as much as we say more than we mean. Our words are constantly redefined by the context of…