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Gonsum, Longji Christopher; Çavusoglu, Çise – SAGE Open, 2021
This article examined salutation as a valued and nuanced socio-cultural practice that serves the purpose of socially positioning interactants and impacting on face negotiations in interaction in Nigeria. This was done with the aim of demonstrating its significance in the shaping and ordering of naturally occurring interaction. The data for the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Teacher Student Relationship, Gender Differences, Sociolinguistics
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Dozie, Chinomso P.; Chinedu-Oko, Chioma N.; Anyanwu, Patricia N.; Ojilere, Ijeoma C.; Ihejirika, Richard C.; Otagburuagu, Emeka J. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Gender and language studies in general have not been fully explored in most parts of the globe particularly in Nigeria. The objective of the study therefore was to examine the politeness and hedging strategies in the English language conversation of Igbo native speakers in Nigeria as well as establish whether men and women's conversational styles…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning