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ABSTRACT
Generally, Christian handbills and posters are meant to invite people for programs in churches. Different handbills and posters have different meanings. It has been observed that there are other hidden meanings to these sentences, to this effect. The researcher hopes to highlight the meanings pragmatically. Data were collected from churches and placement centers in Benin: Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel), God's Anointed Oil Prayer Ministry Inc (a.k.a God's People Bible Church Mission), Gospel Pillars church and Church of God Mission. The data will be analyzed using some pragmatics elements such as Illocutionary act, presupposition, implicature, intention, context etc. through which we will be able to deduce adherent meanings in Christian handbills and posters. The study showed that many writers just design handbills without knowing the implied meaning of what they have written, by doing this, many readers have been led astray and made to believe things that were unintended. As a result of this work, we have been made to see that handbills and posters should not just be written without total consideration of what the readers might imply and assume.
