![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a member of English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (ESAN) and Nigerian Pragmatics Association (NPrA). Significantly, the study complements existing literature on fraud discourse in linguistic scholarship.ĭiscourse Pattern, Contexts and Pragmatic Strategies of Selected Fraud Opeyemi Olajimbiti (PhD) teaches in Elizade University, Ilara Mokin, Ondo State. The study, therefore, concludes that cyber-fraudsters deploy similarly familiar patterns and contexts evincing strategic persuasive language to defraud their prospective victims. The study identified six discourse patterns: salutation, discourse initiation, enticing information, mild conscription into business, request and subscription orienting to contexts of business and religion manifesting pragmatic strategies of adversatives, evocation of business idea, evocation of religious affinity and evocation of messianic figure. These were analysed using Halliday and Hasan’s Generic Structure Potential and an aspect of Fetzer’s cognitive context model. ![]() Sixty (60) English medium email samples were collected from the author of the present paper’s email spam between July 2017 and February 2018 in Nigeria. The thrust of this paper is the pragmatic investigation of fraud spam, the unwanted emails containing the strategic use of language with the intention to swindle money from the recipients. A Journal of English Studies 21 (2/2018), pp. ![]()
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