Grounding Mechanisms in Selected Interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2023.2197252

Victor Adedayo

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Abstract

Abstract Presidential interviews carry significant socio-political weight. Despite this, there is a dearth of research on Nigerian political interviews from the vantage of common ground. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the grounding techniques in two interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari and identify the pragmatic relevance of these strategies in accessing, building, and maintaining common ground. Using the theory of grounding as a theoretical basis, the top-down analysis revealed that the interviewer and interviewee utilised three main grounding techniques: alternative descriptions, referential instalments, and instalments. These three techniques were established by the use of proper nouns, appositives, relative clauses, and brief explanations. The study also demonstrated that the techniques (i) help to institute contexts to enable interlocutors and their audience to infer meaning appropriately, and (ii) indicate presuppositions and implicatures. The study concludes that grounding is a joint activity through which communication sails smoothly.

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穆罕默杜·布哈里总统精选访谈中的接地机制

总统访谈具有重要的社会政治分量。尽管如此，对尼日利亚政治访谈的研究仍然缺乏共同点。因此，本研究旨在考察穆罕默杜·布哈里总统的两次访谈中的接地技巧，并确定这些策略在获取、建立和维持共同点方面的实用相关性。以接地理论为理论基础，自上而下的分析表明，访谈者和被访谈者使用了三种主要的接地技术:替代描述、参考分期和分期。这三种技巧是通过使用专有名词、同位语、关系从句和简短的解释来建立的。研究还表明，这些技巧(i)有助于建立语境，使对话者及其听众能够适当地推断意义，(ii)表明预设和暗示。该研究的结论是，接地是一种共同的活动，通过这种活动，沟通得以顺利进行。

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.