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Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies

Authors: IDOWU Olubunmi , Owuye Opeyemi , Soyombo Gbemisola , & KALEJAIYE Abiola

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: European Journal Of Social Sciences Issn 1450-2267

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Several sociolinguistic studies have investigated the definition of various speech communities based on the different linguistic levels of and their inherent interferences. However, few of such studies have focused specifically on the capabilities of the discourse analytical tool of cohesion to delimit a speech community. Thus, this work investigates the use of grammatical cohesive resources in select Christian homilies within the Nigerian context, to define a Nigerian Speech community. Two Christian homilies which constitute the data for this study were selected randomly but purposively too across the country, based on the taxonomy of churches into the mission, the Ethiopian, the African Indigenous and the Pentecostal groups. The grammatical cohesive resources in the data were examined to determine their level of contributions to the communicative efficacy and dynamism of the sermon texts. Using the Systemic Functional Grammatical (SFG) theory that relates the form of language use to its function, the study is expected to highlight the relevance of the context to the data, and consequently, create a unique grammatical cohesive pattern for the purpose of defining a Nigerian Speech community.

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IDOWU,O. Owuye,O. Soyombo,G. KALEJAIYE,A. . (2019). Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies, 58 (), 143-143.

IDOWU,O. Owuye,O. Soyombo,G. KALEJAIYE,A. . "Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies" 58, no (), (2019): 143-143.

IDOWU,O. and Owuye,O. and Soyombo,G. and KALEJAIYE,A. and . (2019). Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies, 58 (), pp143-143.

IDOWUO, OwuyeO, SoyomboG, KALEJAIYEA, . Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies. 2019, 58 ():143-143.

IDOWU,Olubunmi , Owuye,Opeyemi , Soyombo,Gbemisola , and KALEJAIYE,Abiola . "Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies", 58 . (2019) : 143-143.

I.Olubunmi O.Opeyemi S.Gbemisola & K.Abiola , "Defining a Speech Community: A Grammatical Cohesive Study of select Nigerian Christian Homilies" vol.58, no., pp. 143-143, 2019.

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