The Structure of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Peace-Keeping Agreements
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34874/PRSM.iajesp-vol2iss1.23547Keywords:
ECOWAS, graphological features, peacekeeping agreement, punctuationsAbstract
This paper investigates the intersections of language, graphological structure and peacekeeping agreements. It analyses the language use in Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) peacekeeping agreement texts (EPKA) and thereby enriches the theoretical and analytical body of knowledge on the discourse of peace negotiation in contemporary English. It is hoped that the findings of this research sheds light on how the discourse features of the language of peacekeeping documents are organized to which will provide materials for ESP materials production and curricula design. Furthermore, this article contributes to existent scholarship on structural constructions of peace negotiation and on the dynamics of contemporary ECOWAS peacekeeping agreement discourse.
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