EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
EJLLS Publication
EJLLS| Title: | The Incidence of Message Pollution In A Communication Process: A Pragmatic Analysis of Newspaper Reports |
| Author(s): | Ify A OKAFOR |
| Abstract: | Message pollution has been described as any form of interference with any of the factors in a communication process that is capable of impacting negatively on individual or on the society. This paper examines the linguistic acts of prevarication, sensationalism and embellishment of facts as instances of message pollution. It also states that these linguistics acts are manipulations or interferences in the language used in a communication process which are capable of producing negative effects on addresses. These negative effects be anxiety, confusion and riots. The speech act theory developed by J.L Austin (1962) and later by J.R Searle (1969) formed the theoretical frame work of the study as it involves the stating of values for certain utterances. The data for this analysis were taken from newspaper headlines and body news of current happenings in the country, prescribe from Nigeria tribune vanguard. These data were analysed from purely pragmatic point of view. |
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