From Legal Remedy to Political Retort: A Pragmatic Acts Study of ‘Go to Court’ in Nigerian Media
02 October 2025 · Harmattan Issue - Mapping the Horizons of Humanities Inquiry - Oct. 2025
This study examines the pragmatic imports of the recurrent catchphrase “go to court” within the Nigerian sociopolitical context. Drawing on Mey’s Pragmatic Acts Theory (2001) to analyse eight media ex...