This research work is centered on the speech act analysis of Dame Patience Jonathan. The main objectives are to identify types acts in selected Patience’s speeches as well discover its effects citizens country. theoretical framework adopted for data Searle’s theory. For analysis, only three Jonathan will be used. includes: Chibok girls speech, campaign at Umuahia and Calabar. study finds out th...

This paper investigates whether, and if so, in what way, argumentation can be profitably described speech-act theoretical terms. I suggest that the two theories of are supposed to provide most elaborate analysis it terms (namely van Eemeren Rob Grootendorst’s Pragma-Dialectics Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s linguistic normative model argumentation) both suffer from same flaws: firstly, their “illocutio...