RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call For Assitance On My Final EssayOn Mwalimu Toyin Falola

Not really, Great One. They are simply scientific tools we use to get to the deep structure of the meanings in texts by relating signs to interpreters.  If I can share with you a bit of what I know about these linguistic pragmatic tools,

 

(a) Deixis, both philosophical and descriptive approaches, allow us to show the relationship between language and context by teasing out the prototypical or focal examplers of the encoded or grammaticalized features in a text. Thus, there are person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis.

 

(b) Implicatures stand as paradigmatic examples of nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena. They allow us to show how it is possible to mean (in some general sense) more than what is actually said or written.

 

(c) Presuppositions are background assumptions against which the main import of an utterance or written text can be assessed.

 

(d) Speech Acts, direct and indirect, are a prerequisite for acquisition of language in general. They allow us to show how by saying things (i.e. describe state of affairs), people are rather actively doing things.

 

I hope the preceding helps.

 

In Peace Always,

Karim/.


> [Original Message]
> From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: 3/31/2012 1:34:26 PM
> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call For Assitance On My Final EssayOn Mwalimu Toyin Falola
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> 'I will seek to delineate and analyze the linguistic Deixis, Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Speech Acts in the oriki.'
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> ... sounds pretty esoteric to me but them I am only a historian.
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> GE
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> Call for Assistance on My Final Essay on Mwalimu Toyin Falola
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> Good Greetings USA-Africa Dialogue Family Members:
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> I pray that your semester is going very well. I also pray to Allah/God (SWT) to bless abundantly the many wonderful USA-Africa Dialogue Family Members who have been very generous in providing me with their assistance in writing two essays on Mwalimu Toyin Falola's work: (1) "Fractal Complexity in Mwalimu Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter then Salt:  A Pluridisciplinary Exploration of Cultural Power" and (2) "Religious Tolerance in Mwalimu Toyin Falola's Work: Intercultural Philosophical Correspondences in the Classic Allegory of The Parable of the Three Rings."
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> I now come to the Family Members to ask for assistance for my final essay on Mwalimu Falola's work, at least for now. The essay is tentatively titled "A Pragmatic Linguistic Analysis of Mwalimu Falola's Oriki   (praise name) Ishola." I have copied the oriki  below. In this lengthy essay I will seek to delineate and analyze the linguistic Deixis, Implicatures, Presuppositions, and Speech Acts in the oriki.
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> I am therefore calling upon our Yoruba Linguists Family Members to help me with a few deep structure aspects of the oriki.  If you can help, please send me a private E-mail to theai@earthlink.net<mailto:theai@earthlink.net>.  Thanks a heap in advance for your good help.
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> In Peace Always,
> Abdul Karim Bangura/.
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> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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> Isola
>
> Isola, the scion of Agbo
>      He who dreams daily of wealth
>      He who thinks daily of the good things of life
>      Isola, the scion of Agbo
>      Isola, spring to your feet
>
>      The guinea fowl flies up as free as the air
>      The woodpecker taps the tree with a rattling sound
>      Isola, heights never make the monkey lose his breath
>      Isola, the scion of Agbo (Falola, 2005:163-164).
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