A Pragma-Stylistic Exploration of Selected Sign-out T-shirts’ Inscriptions
Abstract
In the last few decades, sign-out t-shirt inscriptions have become a fast-trending culture in the educational arena. Even though a considerable number of researchers have done series of works on t-shirt inscriptions in the linguistic domain, much still required to be done as far as Nigerian education sector is concerned. To this effect, the present research is aimed at a pragma-stylistic analysis of selected sign-out t-shirts deploying Mey's (2001) Pragmatic Acts Theory and foregrounding as both pragmatic and stylistic tools of analysis. A total number of five (5) purposively selected data are sampled and analysed. The data are sourced from the internet. Findings indicate that the inscriptions on sign-out t-shirts reveal the experiences, personality, and motions of the wearer in the sense that they tell the world certain realities about humans’ efforts in pursuance of academic success. The Pragmatic Acts underscores the underlying intended meaning of the inscriptions, while the foregrounding reveals how language is deployed with the aim of arriving at the meaning intended by the wearer. The study concludes that the inscriptions on sign-out t-shirts have helped to unravel the hidden messages conveyed by the wearers and revealed the social realities that influence such inscriptions on sign-out t-shirts.
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