PROF. L.C YUKA

This study explores politeness strategies and the use of oral abuse in Ika. Communication is the exchange of meaningful information between individuals or a group of individuals in a community. Communication among human involves the use of language and there are various ways human beings use language and these difference in the ways of language use, constitute a difference in the ways the expressions are interpreted. This study is about a particular way language use constitutes difference in the ways the expressions are interpreted. The focus in this study is to investigate how older women in Ika use abusive expressions in a polite manner without hurting the feelings of those persons towards whom the utterances are directed. The study also
sets out to examine the types of abusive expressions and their contextual meaning. This means the different meanings these abusive expressions might have depending on the environment or situation where the utterance (s) occurs.