A STUDY OF MODIFICATION IN PRESIDENT NANA AKUFU-ADDO’S 7TH STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS

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Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.54513/joell.2023.10304

Peace Chinwendu Israel, Wekia Peter Adi, Cephas Anafo, Atigdiro Mavis Atigdiroma

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This paper examined the use of qualifiers as elements of modification in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s 7th State of the Nation’s Address. It is a qualitative research which employed content analysis to identify patterns and meanings within the text and draws inferences on the communication and context in which they were produced. Through the purposive sampling technique, one hundred (100) sentences were selected and analysed using Mudhsh et al’s (2015) Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA). This theory provides a paradigm which breaks a sentence down into its constituent parts to help understand its underlying structure and meaning. The finding revealed that there is the preponderance usage of qualifiers in his modification of the nominal group structures than modifiers. Again, most of the qualifying elements in the address are made up of phrases and clauses; hardly were there single words used as qualifiers. It also established that qualifiers are significant in establishing and clarifying meaning in sentence structures and speeches. This underscored the fact that the use of qualifiers in modifying utterances makes information more vivid, more effective and ultimately more receptive to the reader/audience.

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期刊介绍： Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.