Includes index.

1.Discourse -- 2.Context -- 3.Conversational analysis -- 4.History and scope of pragmatics -- 5.Speech acts as states-of-affairs: a pragmatic overview of a mobile-phone message of August 31st 2012 -- 6.Deixis -- 7.The concept of presupposition -- 8.A pragmatic analysis of truth value in selected Nigerian newspapers -- 9.Speech act analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan and General Mohammed Buhari's 31st March 2015 telephone conversation -- 10.The discourse of language of public relations (PR): a case study of Nasarawa State University, Keffi -- 11.Critical discourse analysis: an overview -- 12.Contextualizing an African brand of terrorism in the eye of critical discourse: a case of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic sect -- 13.Forensic linguistics -- 14.A multimodal discourse analysis of selected campaign posters in Abuja.

Previous works on Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics have either been dominantly focused on theory or on practice without much balance and attention to both theory and analysis. The present volume seeks to strike a balance between the two closely related disciplines on the one hand, and between the study of theory in the two disciplines and on issues of methodology and application in specific areas of enquiry on the other. The book seeks to provide a cross-sectional view of scholarship in these areas, specifically from the perspective of how the intersection of theory and practice enables Nigerian scholars of Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics to understand and analyse texts that have pan-Nigerian peculiarities.