Abstract This paper investigates how pragmatics can be deployed to interpret non-standard usages in the context of English language users. There are two important linguistics keys interpreting meanings English: and grammatical competence. For effective communication, a decoder must competent at levels. Many researchers Nigeria have agreed that, Nigerian has come stay, therefore, we need look be...

Models and methods of rational choice theory naturally suggest themselves as excellent candidates for formal accounts of pragmatic inferences conceived in a Gricean fashion as the result of interpreting language use as rational human action. This paper spells out a particular way of using game theory in linguistic pragmatics and assesses weaknesses and strength of the suggested approach. The pa...