Reduplication is a product of interference, a major phenomenon in the interlingual study. Lexical Reduplication deals with a situation whereby a particular lexical item is repeated side-by-side in a sentence to express the speaker’s feelings or thoughts. Reduplication, often occasioned by interference, occurs mostly among speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL or L2), irrespective of their level of education, status and proficiency in the English Language. This paper, under the purview of socio-semantics, undertook to analyze lexical reduplication in Nigerian English in the utterances of Lead City University, Ibadan undergraduates. Using Alsamadani and Taibah’s framework of the typology and functions of reduplication, data were collected from two (2) departments, each across five (5) faculties. Using a voice recorder, structured interviews and focused group discussions of Ten (10) students were sampled from the selected departments. The findings show the occurrence of full reduplication in the forty-four (44) transcribed utterances where lexical reduplication was realized. Words, groups and clauses were reduplicated for emphasis/iteration purposes 6 times (54.55%), for pluralisation purposes 4 times (36.36%) and 1 time (9.09) for nominalisation purposes. There was, however, no instance of reduplication for the function of the distribution. Furthermore, asides from the functions identified by the framework guiding this study, the data analysis shows that educated speakers of Nigerian English also use reduplication for the purposes of hesitation, affirmation and disapproval.

This study carried out a review of selected sermons of Bishop David Oyedepo in order to highlight the contexts and pragmatic acts deployed in the sermons, as no scholarly work has been done on Oyedepo’s sermons using Jacob Mey’s pragmatic act theory. The objectives are to ascertain the underlying contexts of the themes in the selected sermons and to examine the pragmatic acts performed. Using exclusively Jacob Mey’s pragmatic act theory as a theoretical framework, the methodology is qualitative in its approach. The design is content analysis. From an average of eleven thousand eight hundred and eight sermons, four sermons spanning varying human endeavours are purposively selected. Data was sourced and collected online, employing the top-down analytical approach to revealing the context and pragmatic acts deployed. Findings reveal the contextual constraints of history and war employing the practs of assuring, informing, and re-enlightening. The summary of the findings reveals that ten excerpts were analysed from the data, two pragmatic contexts were established, and three practs were classified, all interjected with pragmatic tools of REL, INF, REF, SSK, VCE, M and conversational acts which runs through the entire data. Through this study, a framework has been provided for the interpretation of Bishop Oyedepo’s sermons which religious scholars and teachers would find a veritable tool for advancing pedagogical skills in mission schools and churches. The study recommends further studies on the phonological acts performed in sermons.