Politics of Words, Words of Politics: Analysis of Rhetorical Dexterity in Selected Yorùbá Films
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Abstract
Words are wondrous things that evoke great emotions, create a sense of urgency and compel the audience in earnest to do what is unbelievable. This study substantiates an interface between four Yorùbá recent epic movies using the mode through which the rogues and rebels satirise the society and effect changes with political words in their rhetorical media. We employ Roman Jacobson's Communication Models in Structuralism to survey rhetorical acts in four Yorùbá selected films. Findings reveal the instrumentality of emotive, conative, phatic, poetic, referential and metalanguage functions, and that the conative and phatic functions are the most vital pragmatic tacts used by the rogues in these films, demonstrating how selfless rhetoric propels audiences toward the messages conveyed.
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