24 Feb 2026Open access
“Yeeees, Thank You Please!”: the Pragmatics of Please in African EnglishesPublisher siteContrastive Pragmatics, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
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Deborah Abiola
Fifelola
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Redeemer's University
Nigeria
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5 works13 Feb 2026
Thanking strategies in Ghanaian English and Ugandan English: A corpus-based studyPublisher siteJournal of Pragmatics, Linguistic Variation and Morphology
19 Dec 20241cites
‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policyPublisher siteVisual Communication, Humor Studies and Applications
28 Nov 20244cites
“Sorry it took me a long time to reply”: Sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in African EnglishesPublisher siteJournal of Pragmatics, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
25 Nov 20242cites
‘<i>No work, No pay</i>’: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected online images on industrial actions by Nigerian public universitiesPublisher siteDiscourse & Communication, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
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