ABSTRACT

Several theories have been developed by linguists all over the world in explaining pragmatics as a sub-field of linguistics. What is central in the contributions of the scholars is identification of “invisible” meanings from what is said or written by the intended listeners as intentionally meant by speakers/writers of such utterance that have been made or written. In this study, efforts have been made to identify the pragmatic use of Nigeria English in relation to some utterance in Americanah. This is undergone to find out the effects of the Nigerians pragmatic use of the language on other world users of English and the aspect of Nigerian English that are beyond international intelligibility. The study therefore concludes that the ability of other users of English to understand meaningfully features of Nigerian English in the utterances presented in Americanah is basically dependent on degrees of experience, background information, ability to identify necessary speech acts and contextual competences about Nigerian socio-cultural setting shared by other users of English.

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