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ABOUT THE STUDYThe study is based on Searle’ (1976) speech act classification. The speech acts used n this study consist of twenty one sentence token. They were used to examine the frequency of occurrences of each of the individuals speech acts used n funeral ceremonies among the people of Ngor-Okpala, especially within the south east of Nigeria.The study has revealed that the expressive speech act has the highest frequency of occurrence along with the directive speech act with 33.3% each followed by the declarative speech acts with 14.7% and assertive with 14.3%. The commissive speech acts has the lowest frequency of occurrence with 4.7%. This leads to the conclusion that based on our data, we can infer that the expressive and direct speech act are essentially used to condole with the bereaved.
