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A pragma-syntactic analysis of slogans on t-shirts
Author(s) -
Michael Alozie Nwala
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
afrrev laligens
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2227-5460
pISSN - 2225-8604
DOI - 10.4314/laligens.v9i1.8
Subject(s) - happiness , linguistics , sociology , discourse analysis , media studies , psychology , social psychology , philosophy
The T-shirts and the slogans on them are used to achieve different discourse and communicative themes. The T-shirts help to describe people, events, positions and situations. This article written the confines of the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis and the qualitative design, investigates five different types of T-shirts. The T-shirts and the inscriptions on them as exemplified in the themes of readiness, position and desire, happiness and celebration, and protest are used to describe the wearers, address situations and pass information to the public. The paper therefore concludes that T-shirts and the slogans scripted on them perform different types of illoucutionary actions which cause different forms perlocutionary reactions Key Words: T-shirts, slogans, themes, multimodal, cloth; communication

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