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The book is an academic research, a contribution to the field of sociolinguistics, showing how language in association with the peoples' culture impact on the society.It is written in a lucid and down-to- earth explanation. It is interdisciplinary as the title suggests.It portrays the pluralistic nature of the Nigerian society. It also corroborates that inscriptions on vehicles are more of 'doing things' with words rather than mere entertainment as some would have us believe. The book also establishes that most of the inscriptions on bodies of vehicles contain element of what is old as in the...

A coup speech is a veritable political discourse designed specifically to sensitize, appeal, persuade or sway the public to support the overthrow of either a civilian-cum-democratically elected government or a military regime. Hence, this book is concerned with the analysis of military coup discourse: example from Nigerian military coup announcements, within the ambit of pragmatics, revealing the thinking and ideology of coup plotters. It adopts the speech acts theory as developed by Austin (1962) and revised by Adegbija (1982) and (1999).The book demonstrates that despite their military...