An Analysis of Representative Acts in the Alaafin of Oyo's Praise Poetry
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2024
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Mykolas Romeris University, L:ithuaania
Abstract
In everyday interactions, people often convey their intentions indirectly, a
concept explored in the realm of illocutionary Acts (Searle,1967), which examines how
speakers convey meaning and achieve communicative goals beyond the literal words spoken.
This research is aimed to analyse one of the classes of illocutionary act of Representative
in the praise poetry of the Alaafin Oyo. The classes of representative speech acts were
analysed based on the Searle theory. The illocutionary representative acts in the Oriki are
claiming, reporting, stating, informing, affirming, declaring, concluding. This research was
analysed by applying descriptive qualitative method and data were taken from the oriki
Alaafin that contain representative illocutionary speech acts. The researcher used observational
method, Participatory and note taking technique method in collecting the data. It
is found that that there are representative illocutionary speech Acts in the Orikì Alaafin in
different context and these are there to state the fact about the Alaafin’s power of authority
as believed by the chanters.
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praise poetry in Oríkì of Aláàfin Oyo, illocutionary acts, chanting